Arsene Hodali

There will come soft rains
And the rooftops will cry music
And the eukaryotes will dance
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this morning i found myself
talking to my pillow, seriously!

i told it, stop it! be still
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Because there are moments

(like when it suddenly hails
in spring
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To enjoy something means ‘to be in Joy’
Ex. a man feeds a baby ice-cream
And the baby’s eyes croon of her being in Joy;
Dancing, for all of two seconds, in front of this man
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these words
these words will not
- hold you close
- open you up
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there’s something …about
sitting in a full room hungry

(no one will ever know) …about y̶o̶u̶r̶ this
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It’s the pause after
The question’s asked
That eventually kills you
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Laughing is the only way to get back at the universe

because it can’t understand why
you would
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the moment of your death will catch someone, by surprise
you will cause a heartbeat to skip

and i know that’s enough
think of it this way
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The detainee is a schizophrenic who requests that we address him by his self-given nickname Elephant (presumably due to his tendency to wear grey clothes) . First found kneeling and begging inside the main concourse of the Grand Central Terminal he was given a pardon. When later again located sitting on a street-corner in the Lower East Side with a black and empty open briefcase, a smile, and a handwritten cardboard-sign we proceeded to detain the subject.
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She says the heart must be broken.

that it must be cracked
in order for the fervent content within to flow
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Vowels are speech sounds
created by
1. free passage of breath
2. no build-up of pressure
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While rushing to work my phone died
(i’d forgotten to charge it last night)

so i asked the man next to me what time it was
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i can sit and stare
at the ocean all day. do
n’t ask me to swim!
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i don’t understand religious girls
who only expose themselves to boys
in locked rooms when the sun’s down

'you are not sacred
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An angel trips and falls
Face first
Into the mud
“Clumsy me! ”
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sometimes i think i get it

i get it
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how horrible it feels to shell out
a moving life
time
creating ceiling light
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Breaking news! young man throws bricks at windows
figures out what he wants to be when he grows:

brick one fell
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