Long Acetone Poems

Adrenaline pumping.......heart  thumping
I toe the line.......must do this in record time.
Glancing, glaring ,got to do it right.
Acetone smells........others panting ,
chests  expanding, shrewd eyes
  stare at this champion standing.
Waiting, watching as the gun...

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Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white oak trees. 
These marigold 
orbs shine with 
shimmering streaks 
of...

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“I was frolicking up a staircase made of clouds only to end up muzzled in a circus ”

I explain to Lola - my puzzled therapist 

“Your rational faculty seem to be calloused by your crippling...

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I often wonder at a knife-edge.
I thank, for this, the master craftsman;
Shine or dull; sharp; or blunt like a wedge,
Within them, hides vast arts a million.

Assortments of knife-edges I know.
V edge: for veggies! Tool of...

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If I Die, Bury Me With Pencils

My sense of smell is gone.
Acetone is empty air.

The cough
attempts to cut the mucus from my lungs,
expell it from my lungs.

The fibers of the swab penetrated my flesh,
cotton against...

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1) Agronomy- the science of pissing me off.
2) Ahab- acknowledging that you own something.
3) Acetone- the sound made by one "passing gas".
4) Acquaint- Not an underwater swimming device.
5) Acrostic- A very angry blood sucking insect.
6)...

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Broken as the muggy backyard philanthropy
I'm puking again on another cold morning
The hot arteries begin to pound anxiously
Let myself out again but got a warning

Sit down and cover myself in acetone
Soaking the floor the corners...

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From ashes
she rises, 
absolving
cleansing, 
face, hands, feet.
Four months, 
Ten days, 
She mourns.
She weeps.

She clothes herself now
in an adornment of white
bowing privately, 
praying fervently, 
as bitter fumes
of acetone
seep beneath the door.

Her source is god.
Her destination is...

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Cold friction blinds the weak
when pallid hands clench tight
to volatile liquids that
evaporate rapidly

One's body passes off readily
like acetone drops
wading in poisoned waters
and venom solvent drains
putrid addiction,
I purge out duration
in each dying breath

Obsession with an
enslavement to...

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