Tag: answer

• why would I be punctured by that smug smirk 
  if some place wasn’t already filled with 
  puss and no it doesn’t want to be 
  or be poked and it’s because of how 
  I always wore it now it leaves 
  
  a mess wherever I go and 
  yes you guessed it the right answer is 
  nowhere which is fine but I don’t want 
  to end up a hermit though like most 
  
  I’ve been ogling the local caves 
  but no I ran away years ago 
  and never stopped despite what you might 
  
  see this could be pixels hologram 
  or something worse we’ve yet to glean 

  February 3, 2026

  answer, caves, hermit, hologram, mess, pixels, puss, smirk

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• If/Then

  if fire cracks the mirror
  then clouds may part to reveal her face

  if night passes like a kidney stone
  then the box is returned unopened

  if the damp gets irrevocably in
  then an unequivocal answer will be found

  if the suburbs are raided
  then your recipe will be forever changed

  if we ignore first principles
  then insects will tire of carrying us

  September 30, 2022

  answer, box, clouds, damp, face, insects, kidney stone, mirror, night, principles, recipe, suburbs

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• gone as soon as it comes and if it weren’t for the dark smudge but no matter when the answer embroidered in a minuscule script costs too much in sparrow wings

  September 13, 2020

  answer, script, smudge, sparrow

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