Long Absinthian Poems

yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweetheart
I earned those ragged rivulets one-by-one
and...

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"In the absence of complication,
     trials and tribulations become distant memories.
          Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
    ...

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They say in space, no one can hear screams; 
so I go there in sleep just to scream.

OBE’s are one beautiful escape; 
muse must release to create and 
she has a lifetime to scream about.

On...

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SOLILOQUY AND SILHOUETTE

Soliloquy and silhouette, a lively dance,
A sideways glance, such dalliance of form.

In Verona, this jester must be serious. Stance -
Shoulders back, feet set, just right. The storm -

Soliloquy and silhouette, in perfect pirouette.
A...

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From the anise do I awaken.
Molten sugar dribbles into my veins;
O languor! My mind’s overtaken—.
The green fairy has me forsaken in pain;
a siren, she beckons me to her shore:
her green eyes incense my intemperance! 
Saffron...

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Bitter as wormwood or Turkish coffee,
absinthian abandon;
this passion stings and burns.
Cheeks blaze with the scarlet sign and stigma
and your teeth leave their signature on my hips.
Prudence we shed like the ash
tapped off my cigarette with...

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