Luster-
Crimson leaves swallowing breath
Risking ground and panic
Medicated dress her up
Chewing doorknobs leaving lipstick
Under every footstep until dusk.
Courtney Roach
November 2, 2007
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Nostalgia-
Crooked teeth and hating me
Skulls proving emergencies
Lilies lining eye candy
Graceful breaking
Chaining smoke through locks of hair
Stretching spines through revolving doors
Hidden stains and saving space and
Swept away.
Courtney Roach
November 4 - 5, 2007
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Scum-
Freckles digging garbage from within
Blinking so free underneath
Skin and palms and dirt between
Sipping innocence under breath
Muting escapes and kicking ground.
Courtney Roach
November 5, 2007
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Sandpaper-
Carbon copies choking on the past tense
Squinting through the black and
Giving back the noise we made
On ballroom floors and unhinged doors
And opening your white felt heart.
Courtney Roach
November 6, 2007
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Speed-
Angrily and painfully
Digesting wounds on burning skin
Paper cuts and force fed lungs
Plastic glass on lips that last
Filling space and waiting
Cement to keep us treading
Dreading meaningless.
Courtney Roach
November 18, 2007
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Oceans-
Fingers crawling through ashtrays
Finding noise in folded faces
Barbed-wire candy and breathless
Called love and I'm lying.
Courtney Roach
November 18, 2007
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Parentheses-
Pockets and brackets and
fistfuls of frames
Lockets and lipstick and
kisses clean stains
Answers to questions are
void under bones
Your nerves and you're numb
and you're searching for ground.
Courtney Roach
November 18, 2007
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Eternal-
Addict of a frightening thing
Dark aggression and a rooftop fallen
Spinning discs and reading lips
Eternity driven fine lines through snowflakes.
Courtney Roach
November 19, 2007
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Overcast-
Dusty waiting rooms and
churning like fog through hair
Laundromats alive and spinning dice
for pocket change undressed under your breath
Eyelids stretched and censored under
bathtubs shredding knees to chest
Suggesting skin resurfacing.
Courtney Roach
November 19, 2007
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Liar-
Closing veins and crashing waves
High heels claiming rage
Kissing face on rust must be
Skipping space between button downs
Underneath tobacco tongues lie
Everybody loving thrusts and
Dusty cheeks like neon sweets
Hitting bottom and spreading.
Courtney Roach
November 21, 2007
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Hopscotch-
Headlights burning underbites
Electricity wiping glass
from ladies' teeth on tiles
Blowing bubblegum
with street corner cougars
Holidays and spinal wine
Seeds like ashes stuck
loose to mending lips
cracked and dusk crawls...
Courtney Roach
November 23, 2007
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Oh Well-
Loose ends untied but lying
Space wasting inhaling
Rewinding hot tempered
Love and again.
Courtney Roach
November 23-24, 2007
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Lost and Found-
Grasping skin and reaching for thin air
In darkness tracing cages
Rubbing blood and whimpering lust
Lifting bodies, two horizons
Lacing fingers through my hair
Not lacking passion faster.
Courtney Roach
November 27, 2007
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Variable-
Bandages rewound
spinning bitten fists
Batteries attached
to sweet lips kissed
Wrapped wondering
how hips can twist
Rusty fingertips wipe
fallen faces so clean.
Courtney Roach
November 27, 2007
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Heat-
Heart escaping
chasing fate and fleeing fog
Hooded skin is inching
Cloaked and broken
Alcohol adrenaline hurting dirty nerves
Wounds pushing strands like
gaping eyelashes and unhooking tongues.
Courtney Roach
November 26-27, 2007
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Thigh Highs-
Wonderful like white noise
Seizing charm and halting taxi cabs
through wet and blinking disco balls
Platform shoes on dusty sewers
Whispered through the legs of starlets
Underneath the leather
lights are beating senseless sex drives.
Courtney Roach
November 27, 2007
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Bounce-
Rolling dice and rocking bodies
Contagious moving wet with teeth
Neon floating with your minds
Priceless love tonight
Hunting fun and writhing masses.
Courtney Roach
November 27, 2007
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Baby Steps-
Cocaine tables left then right then
stretching arms with sugar
lungs of swollen lips
smoky stalls touching curves like hers
speed like cotton candy
lace contagious laughter through temper tantrum hair
eroding skin from cheekbones
pigment lost with fingers twisting air
beats like back seats heating fabric
carbonated kisses filling screams
of ecstasy and footsteps toward morning.
Courtney Roach
November 29-30, 2007
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Miscalculation-
Grinding teeth like make believe
Electricity winding traffic through your thighs
Tape recorders lying in your mind
Shredding tears and untying cries
from this heart no one is holding.
Courtney Roach
November 30 - December 1, 2007
