Short Abscessed Poems

The abscessed wounds of
a betrayed heart fester 
from desertion and deceit.
.
She takes solitude in shadows
gnawing herself red and raw,
rankling in private torment;
gnashing her teeth.

Until pain and grief turn noxious
with a fury justly sworn
to the retributory scourge 
of a woman's woeful scorn....

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What we will possess
access to all assesses
about obsesses

what we have possessed
access to what is assessed
have often abscessed

by a thing passes
ate pancakes with much molasses
now passing gasses

Docile Apostle Who Became Hostile

did know of docile
Trump won was told by apostle
We became hostel...

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I don’t come very often anymore
to the edge of this rancid waste dump
     to pick at the scars
     and bleed anew . . .

To stand and welcome it all
in its abscessed pustule
     as plump as summer milkweed
     ready to be lanced.

I hold the images in my heart
and await the rolling thunder
     to bring blessed relief
     with loosed blood and infection.

My penance....

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A lonely cold stranger in her own living room, 
She assumed the role of a ghost,
She changed her name to avoid being numb, 
To become who she wanted the most,

And her new name was a name for beauty outside, 
She painted her name out in front,
Every day of her life she had intimate friends, 
Living her life on the run,

No longer the shade of another’s dark past, 
A mark of an abscessed old tooth,
She walked the streets with beautiful shame
And became the angel of truth....

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