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Best Poems Written by Aislinn Monahan

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Berkeley Politics

The pennies from my pocket
Fall
And turn into the ash in
The cracks along some sidewalk
I have never walked on

In daylight I reflect upon the disappearance
And count on cut out fingers
All the days I spent looking for the copper bits
But
Sometimes when the moon in the mind
Reflects some of the darkness
I only shed light
On the depression of their absence

The reason I am looking
For these few and far pieces
Is to pay the price
Of another man’s ruined glory

To pay the hobo
Leaning on the corner streetlight
He was once the politician
Hoping for change

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Carmen Electric

I'm ripping out my lungs
So breathing isn't labored
Not for my sake
But for the gentleman
Laced with bowties

I'm hunched over the bus seat
Spilling blood
Back into the cup
Reminding the window
That my hand still exists

The world doesn't care
For my diaphram leaping
Or my feet sketched skidding
All they wanted
Was my skeletal mass
Grounded for cocaine
That is sniffed in opera boxes

This word
Will never change,
So why should I?

I dot care if I stain plush seats from golden gates
I'm finished playing fair
They took him
Growing inside of me

It's only prin pricks
Along their toe nails

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Bottled Trees

Match the heritage
to the disease,
And
We'll all see a translucent tree
Out of surprising bottles

It’s all the mistakes,
That seem to illuminate the leaves
Streaming mindlessly with lines
That embodies the stereotype

If I line up
All the left over Christmas lights
Along the branches
Of jagged glass, 
Will my blood shed serenity
And knowledge to the problem?

Each night I paint the roots
Another color,
So I won’t repeat,
The artistry of concern

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Is For the Way You Look At Me

I think I have found love
It's owner I will name a thousand times
And file it under an unmarked cabinet
That was previously filled but now flows empty except for you
In tht singular files lists all my hearts joys and simplicities
What have I done to speak to such beauty

It is you that makes my heart skip inside my chest
Quietly to the world 
Loudly to you

Deep in my mind
You rest on that line of steel
Inside that cabinet
Holding me together

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Beau

I miss the way his fingers spin
Like the daisy colored spool 
Off the kitchen table

He sings in a gruffed tone
Below my ears 
Injecting that beauty
Into my neck

He's not some brooded lost soul
If anything he's the sun
Shining through the bleached curtains
Of a film noir hotel
Shedding some secret
No one told me

I love you
And not the mirror you dress in
Its those moments without
That I remember.

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Division Street

 I wanted this to be different. 
To rewrite the pain and have it dry in an invisible ink. 
I saw him, on the side of the road with no hand, or love.
His small tail crushed, against lazy thoughts. 
I tried to stop the traffic of self and cars.
Brought him to someone who could help.
It wasn't enough.
I couldn't save him.

And now I sit.
In an empty room thinking.
If i could have changed what happened, did something different.
Could I feel this heartbeat still. 
Could I wish he hadn't gotten out of their yard.

Could I wish he hadn't left, and that I had never met him.

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I Knew This Girl Once

She is beautiful 

She has this smile 
Stuck on her face 

I've never seen that smile 

I can't explain it 
Unless i'm yelling agaisnt the world 

I love her 
More than atoms 

The ones sticking 
to the roof of my mouth 

That dipps into her mouth 
When she lets me breath into her 

She's dark and brooded 
Yet sings of sunlight and syrup 

frayed and magled blonde hair 
Swaying against 
Her wide eyed-blue eyed brow 

She let me kiss her eyes once 
I never recovered fully 
I'm still bleeding insilin 

She is beautiful 
And I can die 
knowing i loved her once.

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Orange Juice

Orange only
I peel you 
from the falling form
off my teeth
because I want to smell 
that sweet sickening
shallow breath


Please my tongue
and fall into the pit
of my stomach
my dear
for I love the way
you spin and speak
bubbling over until 
I am spewing that beauty
that you find so simple

My 
orange only
you are the substance of light
that grows the sweetest fruit

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To My Bride

Love is a name
I talked to myself
To understand
Why you'd stick around
For my falsetto

Today I match
And say
Something I write
On every napkin note
Every day

My lips and breath are yours
I just need your love
Always

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Darling

I am envious of the moon
and her changing state

Never simple 
always in love with her mood
and constantly beginning

Sometimes
when the stars remain silent
I stare into her eyes
and wish she would live with me