Yoni Dvorkis Poems

In the beginning I knew I wasn't whole.
To shed this world, I'd have to kill my soul.

Over and over my bodies breathed sighs of relief
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'But Motek, it's Hanukkah!
You MUST be with the FAMILY on HANUKKAH! ! '
(Ok Mom, sure Mom, right away Mom, I'll come home)
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I love you
Because I hate myself
This is my impression
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You should feel ashamed.
What are you an idiot?
The woman is standing there with a baby crying in her arms.
The train is starting and stopping, rapid, erratic, uncaring.
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1. Dimple under left eye, apply air brush.
2. Extend her legs, more voluptuous. Add 4 inches from ankle to knee cap.
3. You know...I'm just not feeling the dress. Do we have one of her in that green strapless?
Men like strapless right?
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No thought too dark for the monster,
the beast will bare its teeth.
The innocent taste of false hopes and dreams,
and the Angel of Mercy is torn limb from limb.
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Why have you never felt safe here?
How many times have you gone over this in your mind?
Driven to the brink of infinite outcomes.
A plague of restless possibilities.
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1.Fill me up, I am always lacking.
Consumption, the name of the game.
The hunger devours the horse,
fattens me to the core.
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Is it painful to express your art,
or is it artful to express your pain?

Does the torment carry the weight of a thousand suns?
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The lonesome withered shadow comes here in the night,
to call upon the angels’ grace and soothe the nameless fright.

Convinced he is abandoned as fear is all he’s known.
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