Kurt Philip Behm Poems

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321.
Feeling Its Weight

Waiting with answers
to questions unasked,
a vacuum state appears
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322.
Calling From Within

Religion becoming meaningless
when propriety goes away
Nothing to sit atop the lies
nothing to lead astray
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323.
Offloaded Clean

What is the age of reality
how many birthdays is that

Peaked hats and streamers wrapping the truth
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324.
Memory Transformed

Memory has substance
for those athirst
a book never finished
whose pages reverse
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325.
Underpinnings

In darkness
we protect the light

In blindness
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326.
The Final Lie

Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste
Shapes can make an ancient sound
whose feelings stay untraced
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327.
Scapular Burning

What are we but relics
of time gone by

Where painful encounters
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328.
Back Alleys

If some is good
more is better
Less is threatened
all enslaved
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329.
Kurtz's Warning

When the assassins hunt the assassins
—all hell is enshrined

(Rewatching Apocalypse Now: January,2023)
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330.
Full Stop

The most lucid among us
admonish the period
A comma best chosen
inserted in time
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