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the moon is just another kind of clock

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper
hats, new couples falling from couches and love-
seats - the pleasure remembered,
never the regret.

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars.

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives.

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write.

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.

Maybe I'm still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand.

A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where's the band?
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't
have fun.

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred

Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.

Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of -

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense.

As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art?

If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

Know there's beauty in the words you leave out

I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness

To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,