bronzed with nails of gold
sick of waiting on hold
she threw her hair back
gotta jump on her ’89 Peugeot
to Dallas. intercepting lines with a decadent hum
intermittence of back lit squares
mascara and eyeliner bold
tired of waiting on hold
triumphant she got in on the other
side and out of the cold
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royal in a dollar store
sucking the life out a green apple
lollipop coupled with angst
the dyed hair the
cell phone stare the resignation
of the throne. the press stalks
with bloody mary
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they spirit so affluent
the gold diggers counted
they ghosts
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oh pomegranate
swollen on the bush dangling
illogical participle
seeds afire like jelly like
wax they almost picked us off
decisively you stood up
and out like embers like
fireflies like rain in a spotlight
modify you modify for days
and days and
days
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we dodged the skin of palms
morning after the storm we
never made it to work. like
strays in the park like
colors like dreams
they cannot hold us
we run free
#katyamills
the heart finally spoke out
like cinema ina condemned theatre
tape rolling through a bell howell
projector dug from an archive. the heart
finally spoke out the light
cast upon the wall
bringing the past to life for
the heart never dies
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i got keyed up
tearful unable to speak
reflecting what you told me
had happened
they called me overinvolved they
said i lost perspective
they wanted to pull the case
out from under me. i
fought back 2 show it only
makes me work harder
to help
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california. 4am
coffee rims the paper
six months searching the sky
headlights found rain
i turned down the radio
march of death by tally i
raised the windows 2 inhale
the breath of life
we were young we were trouble they
knew us by our answering machine
messages we set fires in their faux
fireplaces
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when the storms of life strike the
rains the heavy winds we bundle up
and hunker down. i was spinning classics
for days calling out with the chorus
like forty years ago was only
yesterday
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