Long Zirconia Poems

I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end of a story
the potential   the inevitable
life finite ...

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Punch the button dial 9 three times 
“Hello This is the emergency line” 
“Excuse me yes id like to report a crime”
For you see this man took something that was mine 
He took my hope,...

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Eulogies are beautiful things in the way that many counterfeit things can be beautiful; in the way that deception so expertly executed can be so breathtakingly perfect; in the way that a fist sized cubic...

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Perfect Imperfection   
By Fabiola Rios 

Earth could be in a hellfire blazing with hate, negativity, and hands open to clap upon our failure, yet together we yield a power capable of shielding us;...

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Cinderella Memories

Young, self-confident, the debutante
stood!
At the top of the golden railed staircase.
And, oh my, in a Cinderella mood!
The white full length strapless gown,
Satin buttoned gloves to her elbow,
And her partner, in tuxedo dressed,
Made her so...

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Majestic sparkles dot the salty sky like Cubic zirconia.

That would be the wet sky on your left...
no, dear child, your other left...
yeah-yes, that's the one, 
The one placed just below the real Mccoy, 
the one...

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A is for angry atheist angst
B- you're bleeding bruised broken taking your allowance to the bank

C is for cutting, crimson and crying
D is for daemons, death, darkness, and dying

E is for everything gone wrong in...

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Zany Z’s

Zany zoo of zaftig zebras,
Zarnder manes, zebus with ziffs,
Zip through zawns, zigzag with zest
Wearing zories and a zoster
From too much zimstern, zabaglione and ziti-
Zucchini, zwieback, zeppoles, and zeps;
Zillion zitherns of zirconia
Zinging on zephyrs for...

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It’s your anniversary so 
you’re thinking steak
but your wife wants ramen
so you go to a nice place
and order the fancy ramen
which comes with radishes
cut up to look like rosebuds
and costs as much as steak.

You slurp...

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Do you understand it
now?

It's true the grass is not 
always greener on that 
other side.

We have the same eye color. 

We even have the same
body type. 

But there's one big difference 
she ain't me.

She Ain't...

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day 5,000 in time
it was yesterday
you made it real
i am still living in history
my heart's tattoo has been broken
day 1,000,000 will be tomorrow

if time was in a freezer, i would be the red snowman
if you...

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2 years...8 months...and 8 days
I’ve been in the emotional intensive care unit 
A patient of your infatuation 
Because of the venomous parallel 
We have been in together 
You have been unable to distinguish
That this shake...

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Myths

When I was younger, 
just a little kid, 
I would read stories, 
of wondrous creatures, 
faraway lands, 
and people, 
that could do
incredible things. 
My imagination was fed, 
and watered often. 

Then I grew up and...

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