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by Christopher Barnes
Prescription Drugs
We tooth-stick Blackheart Cherries,
A Q.T. chuckle gladdens,
Then bank the chemist's bottle.
Candlelight warms, pull-to-pieces capsules
Are pips on fruit-smudge lips.

Your eyes change completely
- Rock roses
On the face of a stream.
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Prison Song
After making love
To me
Write luffing notes
To your wife,
Hum, caged bird.

Rephrasing lyrics
Tune evaporates
In its own heat
Touchless as wind.

Lost now
Tinkling murk for clues
A trumpet-eared Miles Davis
Of the sky.

Time's insomnia,
Rugged cell.
Beat its declaration
Loosing moments,
Oxygen.