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- Fork In The Road
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- I have found the place
- where
- Frost once stood.
- Before me
- two paths
- two roads.
- One is open
- the vegetation cleared away
- it is not a road I would stumble on.
- The other is overgrown.
- Who knows what lies
- along the way.
- I have been standing here
- for sometime
- unsure
- which road to take
- debating
- as if Monty Hall
- was waiting
- on my choice.
- Road number one.
- Road number two.
- Afraid to choose
- fearful
- I will be alone
- with nothing
- but
- a chicken and a red wheel-barrow
- left behind
- by Williams.
- Maybe
- I shall just stand here
- a little longer
- and pray for Divine Intervention
- or a small push.
- -- KDLP
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- Etoile de Mer
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- You told me a story
- about a starfish
- longing to find a place in the sky
- sparkling on the night's velvet
- longing to be beautiful
- when she already was.
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- You look into my eyes
- and it tickles my soul
- You look long and deep
- I know what you see.
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- I love to listen to the sound of your voice
- you tell me the story again
- the language, the sound
- wrapping me up in its arms
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- Tell me the story once more
- Look at me again
- Do you see a starfish
- for what she is
- -- KDLP
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- Untitled ?Need the translation?
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- me revoici,
- je me parle a moi meme
- chertant ton visage
- mon cherie,
- c'etait toi
- je vais vous amour-
- pour jamais
- -- KDLP
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- The City
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- The golden arches
- shine bright
- against the dull black-grey night.
- Cold white lights
- stark and sterile
- shine back at me,
- warning the friendly neighborhood burglar
- 'someone is home'
- even if they're really not.
- Red and blue neon scream at people in their cars
- slicing into the night.
- Lights blinking
- looking in at people
- in cheap motel rooms,
- blinking
- Eat
- At
- Joe's
- This city never sleeps,
- its eyes hang heavy.
- Watching out my window,
- we have something in common
- neither of us are sleeping
- but,
- we both wish we were.
- -- KDLP
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- Untitled
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- Rocking in her old wood rocking chair
- faded as her memory.
- Her face wrinkled,
- aging rings
- like on the old tree
- she rocks in now.
- She used to rock me there
- and tell me stories,
- Now, I rock her and tell her lies-
- I'll always be herehhhhhhhhhhhhI have no time to stop
- for youhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhto talk to you
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- You can stay with mehhhhhhhhhI need my own space
- foreverhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnow
- I don't rock in the rocking chair,
- its legs are breaking
- and it just stays in the corner
- and collects dust.
- Maybe,
- its time
- for the chair to go.
- -- KDLP
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- One Sock
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- It is trying to put me
- in a hypnotic trance
- I am keeping my eyes glued
- to the red shirt
- yellow socks
- white pillowcase
- going round
- white pillowcase
- red shirt
- yellow socks
- going round
- yellow socks
- red shirt
- white pillowcase
- It thinks
- it's sly
- that sneaky dryer
- It thinks I won't notice
- if it eats
- just
- one sock
- -- KDLP
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- Ugly Baby
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- That's my baby sister?
- Are you sure it's not a lizard
- that lost its skin?
- She kind of looks like
- the baby pigs
- on Grandpa's farm
- but they're much cuter.
- Why doesn't she have any hair or teeth?
- It just sits there with its mouth open
- screaming
- like mushrooms in a hot skillet
- All pink and slimy
- with long fingers and toes
- and a head like the dog down the street.
- Do we have to take it home?
- -- KDLP
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- 'enri never cuts thee grass
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- Doctor
- I 'aven't any idea wot to do
- The child won't wear 'er clothes
- I dress 'er in the most proper of dresses
- As quick as she's in them
- they're off and lying about
- She runs 'round stark naked
- like a newborn chick in its nest
- Me 'usband 'enri won't cut thee grass
- 'is sickle rusts in thee corner
- We've let 'er 'air grow to 'er knees
- Bleached as thee summer grass
- See, we're trying to keep the urchins from a looksee
- Doctor, me an 'enri worry.
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- Well M'lady
- Godiva's only five years into the world
- pure and naive to thee proper ways
- With pure and professional saying,
- I can tell ye that it won't last
- It's only a phase, she'll be out of it soon
- Too ashamed to do it when she's a proper lady of course
- I wouldn't worry your head about it.
- -- KDLP
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- Paper clips
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- Every morning
- I stock up on paper clips
- Thinking to myself
- As I wait for you
- You walk in and smile
- Knowingly
- We sit and make small talk
- Exchanging glances
- And smiles
- Time passes and we keep busy
- I fling a paper clip at you
- You look up and smile
- I like to throw paper clips
- I like to see you smile
- Paper clips make you smile
- Just for me
- Someday, I'll get you alone
- When I have a whole box of paper clips
- -- KDLP
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- Untitled
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- We stepped off the plane
- Native sun beating its rays into my face
- raping its youth
- squinting
- like blinds on a window
- keeping the neighbors out
- looking to the horizon
- a green terry cloth towel
- floating in a spill of blue
- neon gas
- hot salt air fills my nostrils
- seeping into my lungs, a vapor rub
- igniting thirst
- signs telling me where I am
- in case I forgot
- Nassau
- were here
- time to begin
- smile and relax
- Bahamian people
- standing like burnt bacon
- watching us
- feel the tension from too many Mondays
- drip out of my veins
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- -- KDLP
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- Untitled
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- Dreams of us have yellowed and aged
- like the old photographs I've saved
- I put your poems in a shoebox
- under shoes I never wear
- words fall from the pages
- letters that once spelled out promises
- lay loose
- and dull
- like confetti
- from New Years' Eve long past
- I keep the ring you gave me
- twisted ties from bread bags
- with the proposal
- Every October I called
- Happy Birthday
- I left rambling messages
- not my name or the time of day
- never a return number
- September moved quickly into November
- I didn't call this year
- I haven't opened the shoebox
- Thoughts of you fade
- only coming into view
- briefly
- fleeting memories
- warm and soft
- like an old blanket
- from a long time ago
- one that you never throw out
- one that is set aside
- only used on the coldest of nights.
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- -- KDLP
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