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XVI
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EKG 
 
everyone exalts 
their own abject
plans this weekend 
but my mind’s 
social trajectory 
is invariably 
same 
i take up 
smoking again 
to confirm 
our compatibility 
a salve 
for the disconnective
impulse 
you know 
my body 
can’t help 
but dance 
when i see you 
on the platform 
radiant somatic emblem 
mirroring 
these atomic 
depths of me 
congratulations 
on your face 
it’s a good one 
i plagiarize 
your essence 
as a means 
of revival 
so in life’s 
every iteration 
witnessed 
there’s you
all this time 
and still 
i’m shocked 
by loneliness 
displayed 
in myself 
misunderstanding 
the stages 
of dispersal 
and manifestation 
i see now
i was an obdurate 
rain in this urban 
suburb 
i discovered 
how free 
i felt when 
i stopped 
taking cover 
i resurrected 
in the alcohol 
of perfume 
i said yes 
to not saying no 
i was communicating 
with dusk 
and intimately 
the sky 
saturated me 
in its omniscient 
magenta enclosure 
i couldn’t help 
but blush 
and just like that 
i became 
gratitude’s 
fullest expression 
i carried 
my heart’s 
choreography 
on an 8x11 sheet 
i looked around 
and forgot 
what had been 
taken from me 
as soon 
as i stopped
keeping score

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