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July 2021

A handshake now feels wrong, just like a baker’s son, eating at Greggs. People hugging each other… you might as well peg. You’re so close to me, it’s making me anxious. Sprewing your germs over me, like a blank canvas. Is...

London

I wander thro’ each charter’d street,Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man,In every Infants cry of fear,In every voice: in every...

The Siren Song

One by one my queer peersSuccumb to your seductive call Your promises, your liesWhisper sweetly at our earsYou say come one and allCome and be free And I see them perish one after anotherI too fall captive of your beautiful promise Come, there is no...

I Point It at My Quiet Self

I point it at my Quiet Self—this gun—that’s also Me.The barrel be but just my mouth—that says, “Humanity.” And what I speak—I can’t take back—this Power—Truth—or Lie.My Quiet Self—forever gone—within Another’s Eye— Featured in Episode 9 – I hate the...

What would I give?

What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me thro’,Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do;Hard and cold and small, of all the hearts worst of all. What would I give for words, if only words would come;But now in its misery my...

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