Long Taking apart Poems

Parachuted squirrels glide onto leaf piles and laugh at my heroic efforts
to keep them from taking apart my bird feeders.

With xylophonic fingers they lift the lids and unscrew until the feeders 
give up and fall...

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Meth Bomb, Homicide Village, 
Diverse Culture Site, Crown Town, 
Kendaltucky and Johnny Appleseed's Homestead; 
Tremendous and Troubling and Tortured, 
Town of the Long Face: 
They say you are explosive, and that is valid; I know...

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She puts together a heart of 
hearts that been broke apart 
for so long. Reluctantly it’s 
been so long since I had a 
tender touch. You see it’s been 
too much trust I began to...

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Humpty Dumpty was Egyptian.
Hampered with mental genocide
and in this evolution there
seems to be no hope for the black human.

A tribal extinction.
Describe a culture
that is as urgent
without draining
your energy with anger.

Easily more captured.

It takes privilege to...

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Late at night I hear the monkey’s laughing in the jungle
They are burning an effigy 
And they find it more than amusing
They find it comforting.
They built it out of broken dreams and green cards.
It was...

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White Tiger

Giant beast, 
un-caged power of destruction, 
taking apart my life one day at a time. 
Ever-growing and living off, 
the suffering of my apparent lack, 
of everything. 

Your secret has been revealed. 
It is...

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I delight in your twaddle inside me, young girl.
Restore the golden-pink gleam with a swirl.
Memories of who've died or are close to dying.
Delve deep, according to inner-child supplying.

Taking apart each self that has been dark-dyed
Then,...

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From the moment I awake
With every single breath I take
With every vital beat of my heart
And every moment we’re apart

In every single thing I do;
Eating my lunch or lacing my shoe
Shaving my chin or combing...

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Ten Things I Like About Her ...

# 10 - Now number ten is neither here nor there
It can be concluded that number ten, an illusion
 Eluded to confusion, a pigeon to decision
A scalpel to precision,...

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honey, you are not responsible for the skeletons hidden in his closet. 

rinse. repeat. 
you are not responsible for the bones threatening to spill out. 

he can call you a doll and watch your cheeks...

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Intense gazes
catch me right in the chest
bowl me over
with misplaced emotions.
Too many times
have I fallen
and jumped back
into the saddle
Maybe I shouldn’t get up
this time.
With meanings 
so unclear
I search for
a solid foothold
that one topic
not internally masochistic.
Hours...

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