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r.s.v.p.what I'd really like
is someone who won't make me
feel ashamed to feel

find one real bit of feelingdo me a favor
no more love, no more later
this time, just stay gone

unwrappedyou: complete package
me: various useless parts
(assembly required)

don't take my word for itfragment your fiction
art is a part of heartbeats
just stop wasting words

disposable assetsI've been writing poems
none of which are about you
(except for this one)

i will delete thisi keep dead flowers
in my window in hopes that
they're just pretending.

Mind Stream

everlasting peace
one faith's as good as any
I'll color mine blue

files as donewords are only meant
to breathe their own air and then
drift gently skyward

early fits of wintersomeday
I'll be old
and lonely enough to
attend fraud prevention
conventions
haunting doorways
and drink tables
pretending
I still know you

meanwhile
I settle
for deserted roads
and softly falling
melancholy bits of sky
making my quiet goodbyes
to the empty promises
of radio

and they sing
love
love
love
and I'm hard-pressed
to refuse

untangling from tomorrow
with all my poems
like personals

what's yours is minesI imagine you
soft
and gentle

unaware of the
slow
planet
churn
in my gut

the piece of me
so pleasantly
making a
joke
of gravity

(making a
gift
of everything)

and another thing
I

wonder
what you're thinkin' 'bout
while I
wonder
what you're thinkin' 'bout
and I guess
I'll always
wonder now
'cuz I'm all
filled up with
wonder now

it takes the place
of breath
and flesh
pressed up against
me

it fakes the shape
except
it's less
than best
pleased

Thought 5Not everyone has a happy ending.

the hardest parts1.

the thing about
your ribcage
is

I can see
my house
from there

2.

you make a
fist and
I make a
fist and
we end up
holding hands

existentialist pick ups...where have I been all my life?

February 2009 Haiku-Wrimo1.

winter rain-
an old pot fills
with moonlight

2.

sunrise...
birdsong falling
from the mountain

3.

just in time
for the newborn-
snow flurries!

4.

gang signs
on the old church door...
winter deepens

5.

stillness...
a cloud
of white breath

6.

deep
in the raven's cry-
southern drawl

7.

midnight walk-
between each star
the cosmos

8.

resting awhile
on Issa's death poem-
the fly

9.

morning thaw-
the bulldog's growl
softens

10.

loneliness...
leek soup cold
in the crock pot

11.

crows
becoming
dusk

12.

one cloud
the shade of mango-
winter's end?

13.

begging
in her

and the crowd goes wildI am a big fish
in a nonexistent pond
dirt will cover me

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is
the other hand

and she loves it

it's a numbers game, reallyseveral seconds into this so-called new year
and I'm burying resolutions beneath off hand remarks
sparking hope
I'm too exhausted to extinguish

you're speaking to the scenery all around me
sipping familiarity
a mess of miles
and not-a-chance-in-hell away
I'm pausing just in case
there's still a breath we find
worth taking

three hundred sixty five days
solidified
my firm belief

there's no mistake too great to make

so I'm setting my next story
in the faces of
some billions

entitled

just another bunch of people
going on with life
without me

almost anonymous: epilogueI received the perfect present
just too bad I haven't seen it since
chalk up another loss
to lesson-learned experience
by next year I'll be unable to prove
this christmas ever existed
trying to paint you (a prettier picture)
but the real world keeps getting it twisted

almost anonymous...I've a way with people that
works well in theory
though requested in retrospect
it
seems to slip by
unnoticed in the moment

so hold it

are you some phase
of this oft repeated phrase
spoken differently?

(something like)

we used to awake in the same state
unaware
now we're less literal
but closer still
despite the distance

and

I felt we were well met
perfect smile
and a heart to match
so fell like the missing snow
melting around you

but

last night I had to dream heroics
my mind attempting to placate
like your sympathetic kisses
as if saving you in sleep
would somehow make me necessary

then

woke in that empty bed
wi

you can pretend it's...she speaks
occasionally

that once-in-a-while way
familiar to earthquakes
and the end
of civilizations

she shakes
when she's alone

understandable I'd
shake (alone with her)

see
she's buried in the bottle
and
you can bury me in boston
when
wide-eyed and wondering
this same sky comes crashing
down

and I
won't claim I wasn't warned
about hanging stars from expectations
but I'm
second nature embarrassment and
first nature proceed anyhow

even now

I'm still reaching
but she's on the other side
of beautiful

and other discrepancieson paper
my life seems especially misleading

the people that I write about
are never the ones reading

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love is like a bruise
lurking just beneath your skin
begging to be born

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"with declarative mumbo-jumbo
my narrative unfolds"

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I think we're all crusin' for a bruisin'

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In the tradition of the Winter HaikuWriMo, this lovely poem available now by *YouInventedMe, has a delightful originality and as is noted it: 'encapsulates the human condition.' ( Suggested by ~TazzyDee and Featured by `LadyLincoln )

love 4 4

joy 1 1

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

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*KaitForest Dec 1, 2012 Writer

whoa this is so striking. i tend to think all your things are perfect but i don't know, the title feels very off-- it might just be me though

`YouInventedMe Dec 2, 2012 Writer

thank you. it's just as interesting to hear where people find dissonance.

*urban-lingo May 11, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

hi there,
i've featured your wonderful literary work in my journal along with some others
it can be found here [link]
please check it out and see the other work i've featured!

hope you like it ~

`YouInventedMe May 11, 2011 Writer

thanks so much!

*urban-lingo Sep 24, 2010 Hobbyist Writer

beautiful, i love the name (:

`YouInventedMe Sep 28, 2010 Writer

thanks a lot.

~PrettyCrazy Sep 14, 2010 Hobbyist Writer

Love the flow, the sounds, the alliterations.

`YouInventedMe Sep 16, 2010 Writer

much obliged.

~mjlynn Nov 16, 2009 Writer

This is beautiful. I love it so much!

`YouInventedMe Nov 17, 2009 Writer

thanks a lot

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