by Lester Allyson Knibbs
(formerly Hakeem Muhammad)
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i see your warm skin
let me close my eyes and stroke
the sweet taste of brown
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i'm being pursued
silent invisible foe
i keep shoveling
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it's lost i left it
small precious thing far behind
go back go back
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push the rock uphill
it rolls all the way back down
today i shovel snow
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quiet fluff falling
the color of innocence
the sound of death
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small tag on big toe
please dispose of properly
thoughtful suicide
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someone please call me
i promise to answer and
not say oh it's you
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the highway is ice
my car spinning uncontrolled
oh the view the view
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the ocean i braved
crash flipped and rolled me over
roaring in triumph
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these years my privates
grant me such noble pleasure
on the toilet bowl
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February 21, 2003
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