Hooking
I’ve known the streets: Places where the night lingers and the echoes of passing cars feel distant.
My feet have grown accustomed to the dim-lit alleys.
I walked past shuttered windows when the city slept, listening for the familiar footsteps that come and go.
I leaned against the brick walls, my breath clouding in the cold air,
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Categories:
hooking, body, lust, work,
Form: Free verse
Screwing Up or Hooking Up
Yup ... there's no question about it,
I'm talking about sex, and all the
Calamity and comedy that surrounds.
Yet I'm not sure if the destiny will
Defer to the clumsy, or if it will
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Categories:
hooking, anxiety, crush, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Hooking
hooking laughs
then another
~ barrel of monkeys
posted on June 12, 2018
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Categories:
hooking, autumn, childhood, games, october,
Form: Haiku
Hooking Up Is Mad
She is a Ugandan girl
The odds are stacked against her
That is her first hurdle
She is also a Christian girl
That is her second hurdle
Clearly, hooking up is bad
She goes ahead
She braves the storm
She hits the bar
Try as she may
The good ones won’t play
Clearly, hooking up is hard
She lays out her cards
Rack, **** and eyes
She works it,
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Categories:
hooking, image, life,
Form: Light Verse
Hooking Up the Machines
My new office is a maze and tangle of wires
a challenge for these tired old eyes:
What goes how and when and where--
think I'll go outside and get some air.
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Categories:
hooking, confusion,
Form: Couplet