tel•e•pho•to

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Laugh with me
Help me grow old
Ease me with tales of your gold
Tell me the story of each piece of silver 
Their meaning each treasure to you

Laugh with me 
Help me embrace 
The glitter life’s splayed ‘cross my face
Tell me you’ll seek me, need me, keep me
As we walk in our soul’s shoes 

Status

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Soaked in and wrung out as the Sun at day’s end

With only the scorched skin to show

Hands up and head back, to laugh is the key 

At best and at worst, I am faced to know 

I 

Amuse 

Me

Faux

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I’m a mail-order bride
Don’t get me wrong
But you know dating
Is a too-tragic song
From far away to there
In sixty-seconds flat
White dress, bare feet
Golden Boy, beat that

The Trouble

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In benevolent disguise

The mighty workhorse sets out to tarry 

With trouble to cause and pain to promote 

So much static you don’t know the difference 

Between assent or enslavement

Surrender or defeat

Creeper

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What when all you allowed to stifle you

Exhales

Turns tail

And walks away with the stench of fraud hanging from its defeated bones

Might you then heave and gasp for the first time since your youth 

Breathe

You will

When what all you allowed saves you 

Dense

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Within the deep green foliage 
I see colors promising
To burst up through the day’s wreckage 
And say that all’s okay
But I’m telling you 
I tell myself
All they are 
Are liars