Emerson Roberts

You cut me with your voice
Cut through to the first day we met
Cut what knowing cares to remember
Your voice above my head
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Such brief miracles
Alone watching the songs unfold
The passions displayed
"These are but shadows of the things that have been, "
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If you love my afternoon speeches
Sharing grapefruit on the balcony
You’ll know I love
And give what you see
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Armored shoulders
And a cup of light at the window sill
Monorail beer milk ideas
Translating Shakespeare into Mandarin
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Demolition dentition
Four classes of tooth
And thirty two individual souls
All witness the final goodbye
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Bitten and cut,
Tattoo smeared,
Injected with liquid magnets
And helium scorched tornado trash,
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Friends make days worthwhile.
All my friends were dead
Before I met them
For the first time.
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I cast these words on creeping ink
A butcher’s sink of bloody stink

In the accident, my face was ruptured,
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Her sign language translation
Of the droning speaker
Is much more interesting
Than the droning speaker.
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We break with inexpressible cold
The memories it took to build this place
The folds of lawn turn truant in the twilight
Silverware and china clink in the distance
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Are we a flesh
Aria stripped
Candle light fragrant smoke
Shiny makeup in the front row
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To preserve your shallowness
You became a cryptographer,
Then to worse, a map thief.
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