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This is why we can't have nice things

from One Last Shot by Bob Gaulke

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This is why we can't have nice things (emaj/bmaj)

someone's desires
blind our eyes

send us reeling
cracking our minds

reminding us
we're here just once

in bodies fragile
as our thoughts

ideas linger
half a life long

burning fingers
wetting tongues

remaining too
hot to stomach
until we’re
naked, confronted


feel it in this waking dream
puzzle over what it could mean
cupping drops in a stream
this is why we can’t
have nice things

taken together
making explosions
rocking each other
to foundations

paradoxes
trapped inside
we’re wondering
for the second half
of our lives

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from One Last Shot, released June 6, 2023

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Rootless cosmopolitan. I sometimes produce others.

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