Maxwell Ames Poems

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1.
Mason Jars

mason jars are the best for drinking
water or orange juice
or rum and coca cola
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2.
Upon Reading Tennyson's 'Lady Of Shallot'

With fear to part exquisite threads
weaver, requite stagnant days in loom
doom heady closure, mirrored in room
for within your work, worlds are read
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3.
Written To Max Richter's 'Nature Of Daylight'

I breath the wind
pulling to and from on the trees outside of my room
they look like bows, playing the taught strings of telephone wire
and the clouds scroll by like music on player pianos
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4.
Electronic Plate Tectonics

I'm rickety and slow like
Electronic plate tectonics
Never have liked ebonics but 
I've been hooked on phonics 
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5.
Conversation With A Lion

I was feeling kind of low alors.....allez y

My buddy lion told me even when I feel like I'm falling
life lines are shot like le foudre but there always remains a calling
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6.
Relationship Of [my] Life

I'm in the relationship of [my] life.
What does she want? No one ever knows.
Well what do you want from this relationship with her?
I want a future with her, I could stay with her forever,
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7.
Femme Horlage

Do you think I noticed the duration of six months felt like yesterday,
but that the last month felt like a year, a week ago. Do you think
I noticed warmth and deprevaty coming into me at once, a weekend
that felt like a month's vacation after I left home. I didn't.
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8.
Musing Knotted

we are as a bundle of chords on the floor, each decision we make
is the hand that plucks us and plugs us into what we do.

through the myriad of decisions we make each day,
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9.
A Proust-Like Existence

I woke up today at 9 am to my roomate
knocking at the front door. He had to drive his girlfriend
a few blocks to school and forgot his keys inside.
He apologized a few times and I crawled back into
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10.
Social Moth

margaret had two best friends
one was real, the other pretend
no one could hear what the other friend said
so she shoved a microphone into her head
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