Justin Tallman

Leaves are falling
on the ground
snow will cover
all around
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The day after cocaine
The mystery of shame
Expressing with a broken face
cracked from the nose
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Coming off the chest
and through the mouth
after a million
(probably billion)
...

If anyone asks
say that I got lost
staring at the sun
...

In a zombie apocalypse
I slay all who could not
survive
...

If I went away
to an island with coconuts
listening to the sea shells
singing the ocean's secrets
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Cold teeth
chattering
in a miserable
vibration
...

I spent the night under a cold ozone
with a girl who couldn't accept it
she was buried neck deep in the soil
and I was lying above
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living in the negative
soon enough
the horizon will show clouds
in the right idea
...

Traveling down a road
with pills, weed
addiction written in stone

From highs to lows
...

I have thoughts
described as words
that hurt my lungs
when said
...

All this time
I still feel weak
at the sight of her face

It all went wrong
...

Through my eyes
I see your beautiful face
A seraphim's promise
I watch your hips
...

Here I am now
with the reflection of a child,
crying
...

Stare into the eyes
whom scan for flaws
There you'll find a gavel
covered in the blood of time
...

Tick, Tick, Tick
the clock opens the moment
to decide, if not to plan
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Carry on
with the words
in a family
last name
...

Liar's teeth
and nurturing eyes
after nightmares
you sing lullabies
...

There is nothing beautiful
about the words I say
the words I write
the words I think
...

There are trees
people
songs constructed
by lives
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