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"Love vs. Mental Illness [10w] Love, like mental illness, comes on graduallyand then suddenly."

"Doublemint Gum: Double your pleasure. Double your fun... ...we're talking ménage à trois, you son of a gun."

"Figure, Woman, Wife I study the sleeping figure,Stare at her sated curl of lip;Her lids sealed in dreams so pureMy love's secured from tip to tip.I study the sleeping womanHer forehead faint with sweatHer eyes wildly remmingOf adulterous sex, I bet.I study the sleeping wife,Her mouth faintly drawing breath;Her throat pouring pools of blood ~How I loved this woman to death."

"My soul hurts."

"The Pompous Psychopomp Its your charge to provide me safe passage to the afterlife,to be a midwife to my dying.Any yet, you hover there, judging me,putting on airs, you supercilious whip-poor-will.You're an embarrassment to nightjars everywhere.Now do your fucking job and take me to hell ~which I guess has already begun,judging by your shitty escort service."

"Hidden [10w] God hides enough happiness in sadness to light the world."

"BFF, My Ass ~ It's a Jungle Out There! About one-third of all marriages are procured by sabotaging your best friend's happiness."

"Why I Don't Carry a Cellphone [10w] It's a sign of servility you can be contacted anytime."

"That's Why Shag's the Way To Go [10w] Love's messy;it tracks mud on the carpet of life."

"Obscure Poetry Obscurity does not make a poem better or deeper.It simply makes it obscure."

"The Moon The moon's a pearl among the starry gems,more cultured than the rest of them.A blemished diadem of charcoaled nightthat chaperons the sun back to the light."

"Death Ride Denied At the stables of your agonyDeath brought his morbid mareTo whisk you from your woeful wantsAnd coax you from your cares.A ride you did deny this princeAnd bid him soft farewell,Hoping the morrow must be brighter sinceYour yesterdays were hell."

"Die Alone It is man's tragic fate to die alone,therefore, we must carefully choose who we die alone with."

"Lady Clowns [10w] Lady clowns drip menstrual blood in seven luscious rainbow colors."

"Breaking with Tradition is Tradition You can take the poem outside of tradition,but you can't take tradition out of the poem."

"Thank You Dick Wolf [10w] TV crime shows taught me it’s best to lawyer up."

"Evil Thoughts [10w] Believing 'You're either with us or against us' is evil."

"Love in the Afterlife [10w] Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.This life, fuhgeddaboudit."

"Penetration [10w] The difference between truism and an enlightened [10w] is penetration."

"Still Hangin' in the Child Hood [20w] You can spend an entire lifetime trying to be a child again,or never lose your childhood to begin with."