Tag Archives: anger

This is not why we are born

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Susan L Daniels

This is not why we are born, So that our deaths and the men that make then can become the next step in the social medialization of outrage, the emoji tears for a murder scattered in bytes and not sliding … Continue reading →

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James was right about a lot of things

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

James was right about a lot of things and if he heard the words your lips made he would wonder if you would try ever to kiss me with that mouth or if I could taste past the bitterness rolled … Continue reading →

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tantrumming (broken man)

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

your fists shatter mirrors punch holes in walls & you with bleeding knuckles slam your own face into a door to prove what (?) that what breaks you inside to sharpness is your heart breaking & you must keep milling it … Continue reading →

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if I say nothing

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I say nothing keep this heart sewn closed as my mouth if I just speak if I just speak if I just speak my eyes their truth and voice frames no words for you to spin if I say nothing you … Continue reading →

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nothing civil

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is nothing civil in this warring eye to eye I count the raised blood vessels in your eyes/lack of sleep or too much smoke or perhaps even grief scrawling the whites with red ink loss written in a language … Continue reading →

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relational mechanics

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

finally, past pretending I force my eyes from the fixed point on the wall I was memorizing instead of listening and look at you; my eyes starting at the point I suppose your heart leaps beneath skin and sternum though … Continue reading →

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volatility

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I would prefer a slower burn between us, a steadier fire because, when this ignites all that will be left for us is the taste of metal in our mouths & a handful of ashes

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