Shane Markie

It was the twelfth of June
another hot and humid Florida night.

In Orlando young people gathered at the
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I'm walkin' in the rain
(Walkin' in the rain)

Just walkin' in the rain'
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The world spirals downward in the confines of a nautilus shell,

Its chambered abode antiquated antedilluvian hell.
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Is it easiest to scribble your life away
Or sleep it all away with booze and broads instead?
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Out of clay or living rock
I will make my brick or stone:
At the door of God I knock,
Builder whose command I own,
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Sunlight from the sky's own heart,
Flax unfolded to receive:
Out of sky and flax and art,
Lovely raiment I achieve
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We're signing up for heartbreak,
We know one day we'll rue it.
But oh, the way our life lights up
The years a dog runs through it.
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here come
the fireflies
with their
stacatto lights
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my old attitude
needs a fresh
coat of paint
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'Thoughts of death
Crowd over my happiness
Like dark clouds
Over the silver sickle of the moon.'
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We looked in the fridge only to see
moldy Kraft singles and some eye cream. That
eye creme was our pride and joy, so
extravagant and luxurious; it made us feel rich.
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A gay man is sitting in
a hotel lobby smoking a cigarette;
he stomachs my breasts dutifully like
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Vincent said she
was like scewing
a corpse, but
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'after decades & decades of poverty
as I now approach the lip of the grave,
will this destroy me?
well, something is bound to destroy
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We took the mouse alive from the trap
And washed his cheek and set him under
Some leaves with a chicken bone by the
Neighbor's gate. In the morning, we found him
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As I watch you leave again,
I begin to measure my history
In lines of old flesh, grown
Solid like the bark of trees.
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Hunched forward under rain, with his boy asleep
In dungarees locked to his chest, and pushing
Against the steeled rhyme of rain licking the
Skin, and bouncing from the beaded flesh, he
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When the snow falls softy on faces,
It caresses all parts with the love
Of a young mother. Who is he
That would call the snow cold and
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I can write or say anything:

Say that, (for example) there's a heaven,
say that the moon's a round faced yellow nymph:
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In the doorway
A black child
He is a shadow;
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