Poetry

Average Brilliance

Don’t be average at what you’re bad at Be brilliant at what you’re good at

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Milk Toast & Cinnamon

Milk Toast & Cinnamon

The milk toast you think you craveWill never satisfy And she’ll always know that She’s not as smartOr witty or worldly or wiseAnd she just barely gets your jokesBut she giggles when you say “ta da”Because when Phineas is on stageEveryone cheersBut she’s never go backstage when you take off your costume and cryYou don’t like someone…

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Self-Love

I can never love you enough for you to love yourself

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Protected: False Companion

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Artifacts

Artifacts

Evidence of reality on the canvas birthed by the three of us creation of ours alive and real I can hear the painting sing a song of place and being.

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You’re a Fucking Poet

Me: I like being a philosopher Him: I hate to break it to you, but you’re a fucking poet.

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Crepe Paper Skin

Crepe Paper Skin

Watching my crepe paper Skin Slide  Over the muscles I move As I reach for the tonic Each morning  To give me the energy Of youth To age  Through another day And see my skin  Wrinkle And slide  Again  Tomorrow  I think Of my mother’s hands As they aged around the Star sapphire That retained its…

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Seeking oblivion

Seeking oblivion

Sometimes I'm seeking oblivionTo evaporateAnd forgetAnd be forgotten

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Why People Go to Galleries & Studio Tours

They want to stand in the shoes of an artist. They can do it by looking at art, looking at artmaking or talking to the artist. But mostly, they want to tell people they went.

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Organic Life
Organic Life

Organic Life

You, who are not digested by the putrid decaying of organic life. Or a relationship. The life cycle is orderly to you who follow it roundinstead of controlling it, holding on to it,keeping it alive.  Let it die. And be composted into new life.  Let it go and be its next nature. Instead of preserved in a…

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