Long Test the water Poems

A conversation that ends as you sweep through the door
I didn't quite hear, my position unsure
So I'll make idle chit chat on your return
Test the water, see what I can learn
Oh maybe I imagined it,...

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THE CHECKOUT LINE

I made the phone call
he's holdin got the work. 
We gotta have the "ins" this time, 
said he wouldn't front me dirt. 
What we got between us 
still ain't enough to score
Let's hit...

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 I DON'T LOVE YOU (I JUST LIKE YOU)   

You keep staring
From the corner of your eyes.
You look at me,
While I’m looking away.
When I look back,
You shudder and retreat.
Both of us know
What you...

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ZEBRA    COMPLAINT

My mom gave me these stripes at birth: 
In the veldt they‘ve proved their worth
For hidin’ from predators
Or National Geographic editors,
But in practice these stripes are a major 
Eye-catcher not to...

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Got to fix the car’s flat tire
the grass needs to be cut
All the gutters need to be cleaned
and fix the gate that won’t stay shut

Winterize the doors and windows
wash the grime from the car
Clean off...

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amen- i pray(ed to you for too) long
faces balanced - broken law
                       ...

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Oh, it can be hard
to rise from my bed
Numbness in my heart
Pain in my head

The door is locked
I'm too scared to look
Cause someone knocked
My knees, they shook

Pulled the covers
Over my head
Oh just what I fear
And...

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I sink just under
senses dampened 
you cannot get my attention 
I'm switched off from you
don't test this water
electricity runs through it
leave me alone
in a lesser world

I emerge
gentleness reimagined me
I look to you for my whole...

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Everyone told him to come out
His LTBGQ friends anyway
All six of them 
For that is how many lived in his small town
in the Midwest 
in the heart of Nebraska

The pressure was great, 
and part of...

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What Parents Should Say
Written by: D. Collins 5/6/16

And We Quote…………

“Go out and test the water, but swim the right way.”
“We relinquished rights on your eighteenth birthday.”
“We’re on vacation enjoying some of life.”
“We can’t get a...

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Moldy feet of clay
Wearing smelly moldy feet of clay,
as purity walks slow away,
the attraction of the  pity curse,
a lady solves the verse,
but is she here to play?

Unsent bewitched beguiled I say,
a bird transfixed by...

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Into the love abyss she went
But this time with great trepidation on her part
As she had stood on the side-lines
For far too long
Too scared to test the water
As the fear of being burnt again was...

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