Paradoxical Karma
Family sorrow is my puffy bags, on my hooded lids, from way back, but it's ok, I'm not stopping. Skin sags under this feeble chin, connecting to pictures in black and white, where poses suppressed their reality, but it's ok, I will continue. Heaviness the sentence of my stance, grinding hip sockets, a weak abdomen, my age suddenly doubled, but that's fine, I am not backing off from their call. Pain throbs in random places, and vague aches refuse to...

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Disillusion
We are not the illusion.  Hidden from view, deep in childhood, the night comes with crickets, picnics are set nearby the river, a brick home stands proud in the countryside. When I utter brother, mother, father, I expect to feel them even in the distance, able to pull them closer with a simple wish. But what I got is the awkward, the alien in its own country, many a contradiction of terms. I used to believe, but had to stop....

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