Free Write 1, Week 4

Untitled No. 1

I love you much, my most darling dear.
In my arsenal of words, there's only one that is clear--
baby, you're a whore, nothing less and nothing more.
Slowly you escaped from the back of my mind,
but sober and grave grow merry with time.

Your trinkets of love were like packets of salt,
and no matter what you said, it was always my fault.
Your hands were settlers, and my heart was your peddler.
My hands are stained, and my heart's in a grime,
but ev'ry rose will grow merry with time.

You haunt my dreams like a loose angel in guise,
but your halo's aloof, and you're a lord to the flies.
Baby doll, you hide it all behind your horns and shawl.
A few years from now, you will come to my mind,
but there's never a rose that grows fairer with time.

Imitation/Improv 1, Week 4

Earlier this week, I found a letter my ex-girlfriend sent me.  I cut out every word, put them in a hat, and constructed a Dada-like poem:

- for Clifton and Vonnegut

I.

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say things, and reasons de
pression.  I
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gence.  I enjoys the
You Hap
py a weird
we don't remembering.
voice over ev

II.

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you love you aren't afraid
about it,
and you mold
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ble.  years absolute
ly stop
ped in per
son I hear are beauti
ful wonderful

III.

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state (13.) things when you you have
gone through.  in
timidate
d,
to help you hard life,
don't care
forget Your
family, you can am
cockiness.  un

IV.

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Love, and it the phone a
bout glad Well,
maybe pas
sion
ate, The fact that and
I a
good father
I have (22.)(21.) conversations,
don't believe to

V.

do.  and you have
something, are depressed, love
the dark."  melt.
Your poe
try,
too the one "woo
ing are
I under
stand me Your (34.) Waiting think
and over have

VI.

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and daunting.  of your These
you were you.
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it,
and family me
You ex
istence you.
I love your laugh.  I love
being Love.  on me.

Junkyard Quotes 1-4, Week 4

1.  "I'd love to build a time machine, pick up Walt Whitman, and make him watch Glenn Beck." (friend)
2.  "I hate the thought of being famous forever."  (John Lennon)
3.  "...death mask of Walt Whitman."  (Dr. Snaith)
4.  "Jesus died for somebody's sins--but not mine."  (Patti Smith Group, "Gloria")