Short Unfixed Poems

"This is mine, and this is mine, and so is this,"
Says my unfixed dog, Willy, on all he does piss....

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Your memories bring tears to my eyes
Eyes that once saw beauty and love to be
To be us in your eyes died
Died long before I met you...

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First given has a little kiss,
such silent taps upon the door.
The less the flesh that's shown to one,
so craves the need for more.
Colorless has daffodils,
in the dark of winters night.
Was the first of what I thought was truth,
yet lies was what was right.
Every word that you had spoken,
empty false unfixed and broken.
Valuless has is a token,
traded out for bills.
Emotionless because your lies,
it is my heart they kill....

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Today I am
querulous
my foot taps a rhythmless tattoo
my fingers roam unfulfilled

this bolus of undetermined want
slides down my throat, 
invertebrate,
lodging in my stomach

dull, 
as a faint scratching on a prison wall, 
carving out the days

heavy,
as a stone unquarried and uncut, 
the sculptor indecisive, reluctant to take up his chisel

some indeterminate 
unfixed need
slithers, struggles for expression
through restive eyes...

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