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Shopworn
Patient
Undamaged, but shopworn
You will wait here
Faded by the sun
But you’re whole inside
You’re just unrealized
You will wait here
Until you’re inside of me
These fingerprints
They make you old
Devalue you
Make it hard
To realize your purpose
Devalue you
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Hollywood Ending
Will it all work out
Like a Hollywood ending?
Can you reassure me?
My eyes are burning.
When is wardrobe coming
For my costume change?
Lighting director,
Give a glow to my face.
My head is spinning.
Can you feed me my next line?
I’m new at pretending
In these scenes that you write.
Will it all work out?
Will they cut this last scene?
Will an editor please
Make it all feel complete?
We’re in the dark here.
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These Short Messages
Last episode, nothing happened
And nothing was resolved
But I know that you’ll stay tuned
in
So you can see it happen again
I love you for that
Baby, now I’m different
I know I don’t deserve another
chance
But you won’t believe this action-packed edition
Results
will be revealed after this break
Welcome back
I’m not through
Leading you on and selling to you
Don’t pretend that you’re
not willing
You crave the calm that I provide
I am the beating heart of
mother
I am a filter for your life
Will I resolve this?
Results will be revealed after this break
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Soft Breasts and Ice Cream
I am all soft breasts and ice cream
And I want to hold you
And you are jagged, distracted
You need crème anglaise kisses
I am all warm arms and chocolate
And I want to hold you
And you are busy, important
You need warm cocoa kisses
I do, I do, I do, mon petit chou
If you thought it out, you’ve tried too
hard
I’d pegged you from the first time through
If you’re feeling lost, you’re not so far
Put your faith in something outside you
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Eejit
Hafdis made a list
Of all the birds
And the joy that exists in her world
Is increased by half
With feathers in her files
She’s entirely sure
That it’s whole
And needing nothing.
It’s true. They buried:
26 pounds of cow muck
A decrepit ewe
And an aquavit cask
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Visitor Hummingbird
Sometimes I feel like I’m at peace with the world
But it’s gone so fast like Visitor Hummingbird
I
sing “Jewel of the Sky, why must you be so furtive?”
But he knows I can’t
wait to get my nails and teeth on him
Mysterious
Happiness
Can you be
As sweet as this?
Lightning quick
Little Bliss
Why can’t I keep?
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Little Dustwing
You chase the light like I do
But only I know your light’s not the moon
I see fear keeps you awake too
But where do you go when daylight comes?
Little dustwing, fly
Why is the end nearer at night?
I swear to you, in my pillow, she hides
I’m afraid. I’m not ready to die.
Now you see why I chase the light
Little dustwing, fly
See me, I’m much like you,
Chasing the wrong moon
Connections lost, a function of youth
Now the time and the love and the youth
Are fading
Like the dust on your wings.
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Baby Beating Heart
You’re a lazy cloud
Baby Beating Heart
You’re lying on the ground
You were crucified
On a copper cross
My world was just too small for you
It seems I’ve grieved a lot lately
But for you not one tear I’ve cried
You were never reality for me
More of an intellectual exercise
Though the door was never open
You found your way in anyway
You are an end with no beginning
You are a night without the day
Poor you!
And though it’s true that there was no connection
The weight bears down on me just the same
It has all been removed from my hands
It has all been removed from me
How can your will be so much stronger, When you are just a lazy cloud?
Oh, Baby Beating Heart, remember:
I never knew you.
It was a failure on my part, I never knew you
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