Jesse Ellsbury Poems

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21.
We Only Half-Live

that’s why we need another
to cling to,
to cast our lot with and bring to
the future like a captive,
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22.
A Game Of Mug

Evening comes in a dark blue fog
staining the streets in shadow,
with god peeking through the keyhole of the moon
and the devils through the peepholes of the stars,
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23.
They Were Mistaken

I always liked defying expectations,
so it’s no wonder that when they thought I’d be a success,
I showed they were mistaken.
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24.
Evolved

With the helicopters whirring their pale brown descent,
and the squirrels purring in trees where they don’t pay rent,
the birds hop from the sidewalk to the trees,
wings propelling them on the white-blue breeze,
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25.
Brain Lying Sideways

My mind is a wasteland where words don’t connect,
a junkyard of images where things that used to exist
lie broken,
heaps of car engines and words unspoken,
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26.
Wrong Turns In Love

The clouds float by in the shapes of memories.

Summer is when the shells surf the waves,
when the decomposed corpses of rocks are reassembled
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27.
Beautiful Swimmer

Beautiful swimmer, I see you,
diving beneath the water,
wings wet like a dewed blade of grass,
tail feathers greased like hair slicked back,
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28.
If You Fail To Follow The Rules

If you fail to follow the rules,
the rules will follow you.
It may not be fair, it may not be right,
but that’s the way the world works:
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29.
Apology For Something I Haven'T Done Yet

When I punish myself to get back at others,
sometimes the logic in this gets muddled.
Who am I kidding? It’s pathos, it’s somber,
I’m an emotional suicide bomber.
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30.
This Poem Has No Purpose

This poem has no purpose,
its letters are cells and just as worthless.
An organism that just exists,
words on paper just like us on this
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