How I Wish

 

How I wish I could write,

A poem, or story,

Share my thoughts for some time,

To feel, you with me,

If not me with you.

How I wish I could love,

Not #furtive, nor aping,

Give you all that I can,

To have, trust again,

If not mine yours.

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Death you taught well

 

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Which tool for the day, my old pal,

Stiletto or #serrated knife?

When one is young and full of dreams,

None can change life and thoughts like you,

The clock will not stop in that frame,

It will for the eye of the soul.

One then acts with the aim to fail,

Like that love note sent with no name,

Death you taught well from far to close,

How to lose a dream and still sleep.

Rules of Love

 

Old habits die hard.

"I love you."

"What do you want?" 10 yo but familiar with the #draconian rules of love.

"Shank the Skunk should sleep with the fishes."

His 3 older bros ruined my rep.

Those 3 words still get the same Q.

B4 I scoot.

Thrice burnt, forever shy.

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Socratic questioning

 

After ‘The Lovers’, we went to the Empty Room. Frisked each other for weapons.

Topic: 'extramarital affairs'.

When two are #besotted with the idea of Socratic questioning, the walls turn red.

After the topic 'butter' (name the film), the windows had to be boarded up.

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Caste Discrimination

 

One of the reasons for the survival of the dreadful caste system is that it is often difficult to prove caste discrimination.

"Do not engage in identity politics," the offender usually says.

If it looks like it, and feels like it, it is caste discrimination. 

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us & them

 

The former Ward Councillor cried.

“Remember that project when we covered the stinking canal? I did NOT get a single penny from that. The MLA got his share.”

I felt sad for her.

The #tax-paying hoi polloi get their pink slip in better ways. Just a kick in the butt.

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NOTA

 

Is it #skulduggery

Or #hardwired idiocy

When a citizen votes 

For none of the above

Methinks that's the right path

Of all by all for all...

  

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#NOTA

truths, lies and inbetweens

 

There are black truths, white lies and #bleached in-betweens.

Here’s one of those.

I did not love you.

Yes, we were good to/with/for each other.

But.

I killed you.

(And myself.)

In too many ways.

Literally and figuratively.

(This included.)

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sweet nothings

 

#Hearken we did well

To sweet nothings in #haiku.

Sans interruptus.

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#senryu ?

making love

 

On the S-Bahn to Potsdam, two ladies in a loving embrace (like Rodin's 'The Kiss') mesmerized us.

On the way to (another) office, we walked slowly, 2 ft apart, never touching, whispering about the night before.

from 'A #Critique Of Outdoor Eroticism', 4th ed., $12.99.

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fractured faith

 

Go six feet under,

Memories, sweet and bad,

Beneath the vacuum

In this vault without light.

It's the eyes, the smile,

The trust, if you must know,

Those that are etched deep,

The breasts, the place for me.

When our lives were snuffed out,

Did You gain #fractured faith?

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Art of War & Peace

 

Never call a #truce,

Says 'The Art of War and Peace'.

That keeps both at bay.

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#haiku #senryu ?

Complaints Division

 

“Is this CD, the Complaints Division?”

“What is your problem?”

“Water.”

“Go to him.”

“But, he’s the one who’s not giving me water.”

“Ok, go to her.”

“Will she help?”

“She will tell you to go to him. This is CD, the #Canoodling Devils.”

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romance with normal people

 

The first meeting with my agent:

"Area of interest?"

"Romance with normal people."

"I don't promote fiction with farmer, poet, cashier, #librarian, ornithologist, superheroes, doctor. That's usually smut."

"Banker, lawyer?"

"Romance?"

"Politician?"

"Death wish?"

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not worth selling

 

June 3.

The last rom-com was taken off the air. Even a gender-free sexless from death to life show could not save the genre.

Love is not a commodity worth selling. It involves too much pain too little gain.

Poets Anonymous members now write about a #crush on an alien.

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the architecture

 

One session with the marriage counselor fixed us.

"Understand the #architecture," he said, "the love."

"Love gave every action something extra," I said.

"I miss being part of the other even subconsciously," she said.

We had to leave the structure built with another.

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