if-then

.

Each breath holding hands with tomorrow

it was a delicious assassin

flying by wire

could have been.

.

Nature talks

very loudly

everything hears

In a way

each an angel

nobody sees

.

peace and love to all.

plucked

.

_{living in an ashtray studio.}

Cleverly disguised as the word to end all words

world word one ended in a bruised but seeming peace

seen in headlines

on buildings, in gutters

worn on sleeves

painted on doors

until world word two

then there was a cold word

words were taken off streets in daylight

held hostage

incarcerated

tortured

exploited

exchanged

a clock was built with every world word on it

scientists say midnight is the end of world words.

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until then, it is all pelicans, dreams and debt collecting.