I Wrote a Poem Dedicated to God That I Considered to Be Extremely Disrespectful

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i wrote a poem dedicated to god that i

considered to be extremely disrespectful

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for you

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The glow from the park's night's floods lights the

wet grass in spots and fog hangs curtain-thick

and cold. The late night's walking dogs with their

owners on leashes sing in their evening voices

the songs of the stage for the audience of the

windows in the tall apartment blocks that seem

to have no summit. He thinks about the way the

earth moves slower every year. His dog sits down

and refuses to move and a passing cyclist notices

all four of the eyes on the man and the dog

blinking in unison and blinks also.

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oh shit i have

“feelings”

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and the beach below is wild and coarse dark

sand and great green-smeared curves and the

sea is huge and deep and wholly blue and

overhung with a thick grey wall of cotton-wool

sky and climbing the dunes and dry rock bluff

are samphire glasswort aster and thrift and the

ledge that i walk on is narrow but ahead is the

flat of the bay where i’ll meet you

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JOAN OF ARC WAS A WITCH AND A BELIEVER.

I AM NOT EITHER.

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the sky swells

and breathes

and shifts

and is alive

and my body is lead

and my body is lead

and my body is lead

and you are

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A woman leans out of her bedroom window to

smoke a cigarette. She sees the dog sit down and

refuse to move and the man stand still and the

cyclist passing them. She wonders what would

happen if the man standing still looked up.

Maybe he'd wave and she'd wave back and he'd

indicate with his hands and his hips what he

would like to do to her.

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She had always thought it strange that people

talk about the heat of the summer as “heavy” and

yet here she was watching the smoke in the warm

air of her room being drawn into the dense cold

of the city's August winter’s night by its relative

lightness.

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[nothing,

[not even the leaves,

[living motionless

[and inescapable

[in appearance

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There was visib ility in all direct ions. Thevisibility was limited only by the horizon. Thehorizon was the same general color as the sky.The horizon was the same general texture as thesky. The horizon being the same general color asthe sky created the impression of being in thecenter of some body of water. The horizon beingthe same general texture of the sky created theimpression of being in the center of some body ofwater. The body was huge. The horizon being thesame general color of the sky created theimpression of being in the center of some body ofwater. The horizon being the same generaltexture of the sky created the impression of beingin the center of some body of water. The bodywas stagnant. The impression was specular. Theimpression was obliterating. The impression wasoceanic. The obliteration was literal.

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The man's dog still refuses to move and they are

lit perfectly in their tableau of dog and lead and

man and bench and bush nearby by the tennis

court's floods and the man is waiting patiently

for the dog to change his mind about the rest of

the walk. He looks at his watch. It has stopped

again.

i am that man’s impatience when you look at me

ev’r y th i ng i s

s lo w i ng d o w n

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[…] he had dreamt that night of tiny men inside

his veins, stirring and regulating the transfer of

oxygen to his limbs from his heart and back

again in this great warm swell of plasma and cells

~4 times as viscous as water in this state and

woke up with sweat on his brow and a dense

stickiness between his thighs.

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it is the future now

and we are both dead

a long time ago

but i still love you

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Alternatively:

He smiles and asks if her mouth opens any

wider. She listens to his heart beating through

his shirt. He asks her if she know where they

could get some good coffee. She says: No.

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diane marie

[email protected]

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