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Bart Solarczyk

The Prodigal Word

                   (for Glenn)


The poem

walks with you

then suddenly

it's gone


don't search

sit tight

it can never

live alone


when it

wanders home

drink hard & kill

the fatted calf


eat fast

its fickle heart

beats only

to break you.



Sweet Thing


We share this small

sweet thing

before we're captured

by the day's hard drone


meet me here again

when the sun drops low


we'll test each tear

against the moon's

silver promise.



Torch Song


She's singing that

devil music again


& always

I'm so easy


quick to the light

quick to crash & burn.



Cosmic Hangover


Shit rises

to our ears


& you sit there

eating soup


if we hadn't

killed God


you'd never

be forgiven.

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