Let delight ripen
into a sweet juicy pear
True joy takes patience.
Delayed gratification
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Let delight ripen
into a sweet juicy pear
True joy takes patience.
Let delight ripen
into a sweet juicy pear
True joy takes patience.
The stink of talent
is on him like fingernails
stained tobacco brown.
Fever distorts time.
Sleep the tesseract that jumps
illness to wellness.
Bright lipstick fools them
into thinking I’m well. No
“How do you feel?”
After the illness
taste dulls on the tongue, food just
fuel to run this husk.
Clock ticks ricochet
like bullets of sound slowing
as the hour grows late.
Her breath sounds like the
whistle of distant trains bound
for lands beyond dreams.