Marshall E Gass Poems

Its that time of year again when the fires rage
for romantic nights and warm sensations wrapping
around you like a mink blanket. The candles
flicker a heartshaped flame and the table embroidery
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We can arrive at the huge gates
with tickets lost and fumbling
for an explanation. Not many slur off the tongue
like new found sexual escapades, but
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Spell binding tick tock
words in animation slowed down to drip
drop- candy coloured emotion
hello is it you?
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I could have stapled your heart
on the right hand corner of this page
written you abundant verses
or smoldered in absolute rage
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I once lived in a paper jungle
conquered by post-it notes
and formulas for living
that didn't make sense.
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Ok-God, I've landed here 3 suitcases
full of charred memories
nights in the bawdy house, late night revelries,
poems soaked in syrup, roses that never got delivered
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Why was it that I searched for symbols in every line
looking deeper than the surface for fragments of you
scattered diamond like in the dust of words?
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This is a family show

There should be no swear words
Nothing to do with sex and laughter
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I am a cube in a dark chocolate bar
seasoned with a milky white
continent of courses
collision of cultures
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Blistering between the false hope of liberty
and the dream of a destiny
beyond the stars and the cosmic intricacies
of filtered rituals of nonsense, I stayed stymied
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