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7/8/2013 1:11:57 AM

Alexander Schwartz
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Stretch and string me to a crucifix with barbed wire

Display my failures and shames

When you cast the stones, you cast them away as well

And when I die, I will just come back new. Stronger.

My man Jesus knows what I mean all to literally

Bonded by the phoenix we burn as brothers

Perhaps of the same kind in more ways than one.

I’m drinking

Drinking

No more

Drinking some more

Drinking paint thinner

I swallow blurred lines and let the smoke burn orange in the night like the relentless spot light in my cerebral cortex.

Smoking

Smoking cigarettes

Insatiable lungs are getting heavy

Smoke more, more cigarettes to numb the senses. You appreciate the breath you have left that way.

Barnyard, winter

Shivering hand

Quick smoke in Kansas,

After a quickie on a front porch in Georgia

Smoke screen, blanket

I just like to keep cozy.

Habits or weapons?

I destroy myself but, I’ll be damned if don’t kill my pains and demons too

I might even live.

All powerful

Broken boy

Perfect heavy hearts

Good intentions and the angels fall to a false hell

Hell is in earth and in our heads so, we've already been there

Confident in a dim room with shades on

Little to no company

The smell of marijuana and hope

Hide the red glimmer of knowledge in your eyes

Lone wolves roam back alleys

Built for convenience

But, sometimes they become short cuts to gasps of clandestine exposure.

I am the world.

This world belongs to me.

Mission to hold it in hand and make it tangible.

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AlexanderMichael<3

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