“You Were Different Then”
Spineless
the need to communicate in dew
his love grows the ivy
to fall asleep with a sleeping bag
in the middle of a highway
to fall asleep in an avalanche
a tar pit, warm coils
as if all your favorite records
and drawstrings: the pinched face
of a vampire, rogue true blue
to fall in love with tobacco
while waterskiing
and doubles the minty scent
your cold blonde hair in ice crystals
and doubled the minute
the swans drowned
and all their blood bubbles rose
with spring dresses and calling girls
the haze of flip flops, a policewoman
her top down the rim of a roller coaster
why skies with anyone
useless tough leather
the boat drifts off
the devils scatter
and all our insect hearts
hold a party
even the clock chimes’s invited
to deeply swallows keys
and clanging change
only sign language
could revive a faded river corpse
to run from your neighbors
with tears in your eyes
forced mutually
hearts’ immunity.
nicholauspatnaude 
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