

VerveYou were born A mound of grace and pleasure On the first day of my life. Six years leadingVerve
And I found breath A screaming,
Fumbling, fool.
You wore into polish Charm filling your skin and scars As you tore Head first and full fisted On the outskirts Of age.
As I was a fading Flickering sensations And I was
The audacious - Heart first and trembling Desperate at breath In the undertow
Of your verve.
I found in age your grace Only blood would appease you.
And I offered


Leggy WineEveryone is emptyLeggy Wine
And in them is to see
What you want to be.
I wanted to be inside of you I wanted to crawl within your underbelly And reek of your ostentatious mistakes And shames.
I wanted to break beneath your heavy hand Burn in layers of your emanation. To hold your heavy cover of face
Beneath my dirty tobacco stained fingers.
I wanted
That emptiness inside you.
And what I am If unable to fill the most hollow of tames Between layers of liquor
And films of filth.
Your emptiness S


Sparrow SyndromeA modest beast Pocked heavy pelt Thick with blisters Is lying beneathSparrow Syndrome
My innermost
Layer of skin.
He is a sparrow Of broken necked Missing foot Tucked beneath
My belly syndrome. Fluttering
Last symptoms of life. Never easing. Never at rest.
Modest beast.
As a child
I was at your tender You on a pedestal Saintly rapture. And I on my knees. Palms to the sky Eyes to your navel Gumming fantasy Was no further Than fumbling Misdirection
To your secretion.
A crippling


Of WonderI must be stillOf Wonder
To catch the breeze A breath… Darling off beads of sweat
Clinging to my collarbone All but from your name Expelling from my lips…. And to nothing.
And as it has always been From you.
Bucking traces of bones Into an airless room. Walls and floors and doors And the simplest of effects. There is nothing here of wonder. There is nothing here of divinity But a putrid mass of shame.
And as it has always been There is nothing here From you.
And I am still
To catch a breeze A breath…
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M. J. Manning
Lead.
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Köziの愛のために。
Married to JRock ~ My Life, My Love
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You . Love . Us . youloveus. youloveus.
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I'll wear your black eyes; bake you apple pies.
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something"
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