zerothehero

see memorials
in DC and you'll know what
i'm talking about

Solarion

there once was a man
from Nantucket, a rain storm
and five white chickens

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The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

zerothehero

lortab spoke to me
from deep in the cabinet
so i tossed him out

zerothehero

sometimes i just want
to fuzz out but i know it's
a slippery slope

zerothehero

heroin is the
closest thing to dying that
i've ever enjoyed

zerothehero

a momentary
suicide that too often
becomes permanent

zerothehero

who would have thought that
one could run while lying down
much less nodding out

zerothehero

i have junkie friends
if they are still alive but
i had to leave them

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i didn't give up
on them but i could only
really help myself

zerothehero

i keep expecting
a call to invite me to
someone's funeral

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have you heard from dan
no not in a long long time
should we be worried

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he's dead to me she
said with brows shadowing her
angry hazel eyes

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i'm alone again
clouds of mosquitos keep me
sequestered in here

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hailing thoughts upon
the keyboard like bouncing balls
of icy hard wit

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i itch from the bites
at least i hope it's the bites
and not some fungus

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my heart has broken
so many times and yet here
i am still smiling

zerothehero

an imagist makes
a snapshot with words instead
of pixels or film

zerothehero

i am we and we
are i am we and we are
i am we and we

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you are i and i
am we are us and you are
i as well as we