Pain Wash Poems

Rung out
 before you unfurl the rag
It's a muddled mess of colored cotton
It's just a mash in your wet
hands
In that moment it is nothing 
crumpled...

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When breakfast was almost ready,                    ...

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“How Strange… it’s Hard for me to wash your clothes:
They will be put away for the last time…
They’ve stayed ten months in small piles, and,...

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O’ Rain, let you come
And let me stay
under your taciturn, 
You’re silent exposure-
The in-out nasty jar,
O’ Rain,
Let me wash the inner pain

-October 31, 2018 Chattogram...

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We heard the wailing 
Sounding from the southern side
Stiffening us to attention
As it echoes
 throughout the land
giving us a bile filled taste 
as we listened...

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M-orn four of the second month
Y-ear two thousand sixteen; 
R-ising sun has turned
E-arly cockcrow to a daylight scene.
L-ong lonely night has drifted into the deepest...

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The wash 
Hits so fast.
Feels like a metal wave rolling over me
Covered in a suit of molten steel 
Changes how you feel.

Don't care.
About anything but...

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You Wash and I'll Dry!

You wash and I'll dry!,,,, were the words that he spoke,
You wash and I'll dry,,,, you had me, the first time...

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Can Not Wash Away All Your Pain


I can not make it rain,
can not wash away all your pain
Those dark clouds steal,
the joy that should be...

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Sand slowly sinks between your toes as you walk down to the water.

You hear the sound of the waves moving back and forth as you...

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It is summer
Do you see me on the line
Wind wrung and dry

I dripped all day
It was not just my swallowed tears
The stain is not gone

The...

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From where I sit the ocean is calling.
It is far too beautiful to put into words.
It's so welcoming, calling you in with it's foaming ripples.
What...

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They all look so normal
They all look so real
You think they will help you
But they just lie, cheat, and steal
Sure there're some true ones
Sure there're...

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