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inspired by an exquisite corpse drawing by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró and Max Morise

 

 

It all began

as just a kiss—

but there was a handgun

inside of a fist.

 

Our pages were folded

so we couldn’t see

where the story started

and where it would lead

 

(couldn’t know what would happen

below the waist—

another man crushed

by love’s unwitting weight).

 

It all began

as just a kiss—

who knew that it

would lead to this?

 

 

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to see the image and read about the surrealist game of exquisite corpse, visit https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-explaining-exquisite-corpse-surrealist-drawing-game-die

 

 

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That wind always tries
to undress me … today
it took my name, too.

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It’s hard to be
serious when you’re kissing
my elbows.

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What’s that? It’s only
supposed to have seventeen
syllables? But the sky today deserves at least twenty-five.

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Erase the word mine
from these lips. Replace it with
nothing.

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Tonight the stars
are just stars, the lines that link
them all undrawn.

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Three Crazy Haiku

Every part of me
burning and still, go figure,
I feel lucky.

Lost and scared, still
the only thing that makes sense:
fall deeper in love.

Light spills all over
the mountains—oh morning, please
kiss me like that.

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