Joshua Bantum

Where is the woman
That I’m taking out to dinner
Tonight
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Places I’ve slept:

Mattresses; Callie-Kings, Just kings, queens, twins, doubles, fold out, drop-out,
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Painting gives us action,

Music,
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The chill felt upon dawn after a fire has gone out,
is like no other chill,
your body is a stone of heat,
and as the ash from bonfires gather
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It’s not that you can’t capture Love
Tie it up and throw it in a box
So you can visit it when wanted,
You can if you want,
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Perpetual Motion, Ouroboros, yin and yang, this is what’s birthed
when things that won’t be moved
combine with things that cannot be stopped.
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They ware down,
the drivers,
the people,
were all tired,
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Let every kiss
be the last every time
its the only way you'll be grateful
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I can’t see your face
Behind those tulips….

Well now,
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I haven’t written
One beautiful thing
For days,
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At noon I woke up
told myself to make some sense
of the world
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The Shortest Short Stories:
l.
The Empty Rose Field:
A vast rose field once went unexplored by all humanity.
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Some are inspired by music,
Bodies bare
Or poetry alike their own
Or not,
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Your soft thighs I long for,
Growing long still, stretching over my chest,
Legs shifting like gears moving me
Holding me,
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I woke up knowing what I wrote next
Would be beautiful
Also I knew that it would be for you.

I prepared each syllable in my head
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It’s a Sunday
Another cold night
This series of poems will get dull
If I keep on mentioning the cold
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There lied a seed in the soils of my hand
And as it began to blossom after the years that I waited
I closed my palm in fear
By the success it may have procreated
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Through the tongue we could never kiss
so with our eyes, our lips
we left no emotions stranded
to be missed
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Forgive an action in the moment

It needs time to fruit,
Like an idea planted in history
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In silence,
Independent of –ence
Consumed by seil-,
The deaf causing
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