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You’ll never know what’s going on inside my brain
I’m not that girl anymore
Who writes poems from the inside to match new scars on the outside
And you’re lucky
You’ll never wake up to a new post about my ****-ups
Or get a call begging you to stop them from happening
I’m not that girl anymore
I wasted that on the wrong person
I gave up
And you’re lucky
April 19, 2021
I'm 72 and I'm drunk
and fearless and still
think I'll live forever
even though I know
I'd be the first one and
all my friends are dying
and I can't play checkers
alone or take trips down
memory lane by myself.
 Apr 2021 Dennis Willis
LJ
Ugly
 Apr 2021 Dennis Willis
LJ
I don't want to see me, either
It is revolting.
Korea on my mind
As with Northern Virginia

On her i wait in silence
My love, i am within ya

I'm looking for my moment
Don't know if it will come

Maybe hermit kingdom
Maybe da doo dum dum

I was once in Seoul
Then flew back to DC

Broken parts, not whole
But parts poetically

                AB AB
 Apr 2021 Dennis Willis
Anna
We never wanted a house, the kitchen, the foyer. We could give barely a ****, really. We just wanted a room, a desk, ceiling to floor bookshelves filled with books and windows that overlooked tops of large oak trees. We wanted the sunlight all morning and afternoon, the rain, the vines that grow around the windowsill and music from old turntables spilling through the storm. We wanted the groves of apple trees and strawberry bushes for our morning walks and the expanse of the entire cosmos for our viewing pleasure during the evenings. We wanted prancing on mountain tops and kissing the sublime in paddle boarding excursions and free diving to a pod of sleeping ***** whales. We wanted sunlit art studio with watercolors and oil paint and graphite pieces on thick white paper and raw clay on the wheel and ***** splattered aprons on wooden stools. We wanted
wrote this sporadically throughout the day
 Apr 2021 Dennis Willis
bob fonia
now you see for mi my room is my art its my one and only master piece i don't write paint or anything like that but i do maintain a room
and for mi that is my art
i don’t mind it
being private

though I do dispute wiki having
opinions

i know it to be fact
and rightly so

those sell by dates are guidance
those some things live longer

we agreed to disagree only
never verbalised as such

we are still in lock down
and are locked in

metaphorically

gently
Quite often the day's budding roses I overlook

turning to brown falling leaves instead

it seems I've closed my youth's coloured-book

as upon the remaining years my weary heart has fed
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