a wedding where the bride ran off

Sepideh Salehi, Mohr Portrait 2, 2017
Photograph on wood on Japanese paper

I have decided to leave you

to the empathy of the birds 

you are a good reader of these poems 

and maybe that will be enough 

to save you 

maybe not 

swallow as many of these poems 

as possible 

perhaps you will become so heavy 

that the birds cannot carry you 

to the hungry hatchlings 

high up in the nest 

__________

everyday

I pillage my life for poems 

a poetry viking 

raiding my own existence 

and I have no mercy 

__________

chopped up my name 

and tossed it like a salad 

replaced the middle name 

with a better one 

by adding some numbers 

and symbols 

like a website password 

removed the vowels too 

ol' jms92%jb that's me 

__________

something missing 

a bus without a driver 

a big lawn and no mower 

a wedding where the bride ran off 

a truck that never totes a load 

this world without you in it 

o son how you are missed 

by james lee jobe 

__________

Death is the most democratic of dictators. 

carlos manuel alveraz

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