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A red sunset is hanging in the sky

A warm blotter of heat love

Hanging on a hook in space, my thunder

Talking to me about motion, heartbeats, time moving

Like machines under the earth

Your heartbeat tastes like chocolate

Melting down my red bones and blue sky

Love is but a moment

Beneath those yellow streetlights

Emotions scattered across the boulevard blown cold

Remnants of my heart

All tangled up in the sheets of the universe

All beautiful in the rain

Too beautiful to even know

How I trace the chalk hearts against these walls

Of harbor town night, glass partitions, drugs, intoxications

A trembling wedding, sorted by space, stars

Brick town surrender, operations in moonlight

You changed your name… Violet, tender, memory

A love, a fall of breath

Her name has changed

Yet the gravity never fails

Immeasurable, I can’t count the ways

The sun lights up the day

From dawn to beautiful sleep

I can only imagine

For I stand outside,

Shivering in the cold with broken bones, heart

Married steals her breath

For I want to steal her hand, her heart, her future

But it’s just me

Knocking at the wooden door,

I bring nothing, but me, this heart, these arms

To hold you like the beating at night

We made the days in Neverland

And to sweep the big, hard world away

With the swipe of a windswept soul, thumb

Numb, out there in this world beautiful one

Wet locks of spear-straight smile harpoons

I dream of other places at night

I rush memories to the clouds

The atmosphere burn up crushing my invisible heart

Wishing everything was here again

To make the fire hotter, dreams bigger and brighter

That lonely smile that fires up every day

Love heart ignition like rocket fuel swallowed

I’m alone heart skip sidewalk stroll

Inside these four, painted walls of cold

Missing life like love lights going out

Digging a bigger hole inside here

Love-strewn nights aloud

Ash, winter cold, what arms if any cradle you long night? 

In that night of cold air, I held the moon in my hands

Warm, the night, a million heartbeats behind glass,

I wrote the world a love letter

Forever, forgotten, trash can eaten

That is all I remember ‘till the break of day

And the sense of the world is all astray

Every word a dumb knuckle

Every sword and dream reality askew

If you only knew

The way I think of all of you

When sun collapses

And stars stand tall

Beneath the countless sky

I drive nowhere

But I have to go north

To my home by the sea

Number four-hundred and three

To finish out these days

With a needle and a pen

To wipe away every love’s tormented birth and death

To just sit and breathe—for once—quietly

Without any ache at all knocking down the door

To wash away, ordinary

In unabridged, final surrender.

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