on having a will to perish

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on a sunday, a sunny day
under a sky changing in a restroom

at a rest stop, and then on a coke
which you have swirling in a can

and bubbles don't burst because
no one smiles sharp enough;

i'll go first, i'll ask:
if you know where you are?

and here i'm hanging my feet
to dry off on a rusted bench

in a park. there ain't no poetic
bone tingling but there's something

more in the late night cough
splitting into a white universe,

a cassette braided into
a cherry blossom's branch

raining blossoms on blooms
and giggling into crooked elbows.

is this where a poem ends
& poetry becomes a blue-eyed beauty

tossing rose gold curling smoke into a
summer night where summer never ends?


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my muse: frank o'hara's ON HAVING A COKE WITH YOU. read this poem? yes? no? go read it then!

a/n: i've found so many awesome poets in the course of a few days here on wp so if you wanna check it out then go to my reading list titled 'celophane celosia' & show them love!

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