Patti Masterman Poems

She is wetware with sophistry
And only half dressed,
Shivering in early twilight,
Your all-expense-paid guest.
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The sky must whisper
Through our breath
It's unseen mysteries
Of birth and death.
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These joys blaze, with a distant residue
A fringe of false, like a tale-tale stain
Or blight of disease, still only a blemish
Through which light can trickle,
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The inevitable darkness
Shears the universe in half
Half is visible and half's in disguise
And spontaneous light falls in on itself
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This is the body of the world, which betrays you.
The world betrays; encoded in DNA.
This is the you which betrays in time, the you
It's always been there, in each word we say.
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Beaks break open eggs
In an alternate universe
Where I am one of many selves
And eggs grow stale on shelves
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Congratulations! Copulations..
You just qualified to see our pop-ups for the five hundredth time!
Don't worry; we'll change it out in three months..
It's your lucky day today-
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In a glancing blow
His eyes swept to
The drifting haze
That was her gaze
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She was not leery of death
They had told her the diagnosis
The courses of treatment
The percentages
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