Epilepsy-
Bathroom stalls carved in yellow
Little girls curled
The evidence is wired in your hair
Sun-dressing clenched teeth
When every day is dangerous.
Courtney Roach
September - October, 2007
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Sunday-
Sweet velvet records
between bed and plaster
Drowning linen lips in coffee
Your second lover in the sunshine
leaving kisses on your thighs
laughing acid on eyelashes.
Courtney Roach
October 9, 2007
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Stretch-
Plaid scratches on his back
You left him early
Ripe enough for real love
Keeping ashes from the last kiss
You can't make my mistakes.
Courtney Roach
October 9, 2007
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3D-
Fresh and red again
Chewing empty pages
Caffeine batteries tonguing love
Hands on brick walls
Folding control
Sipping iodine on the sidewalk
Wipe his black eye from your lips
And pull the ticking from your wrist.
Courtney Roach
October, 2007
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Topless-
The altitude of paradise expands
when high heels climb your thighs
The eyes behind you memorize
bed time cries and modern mid-lives
Fastened smiles on the highway
rearview rock hard success
Blinding traffic from the rooftop
knowing everything is perfect.
Courtney Roach
October 20, 2007
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Garage-
Grunge black fingertips
whisper under sleeves
Chasing slumber over carpet
laced with tears and cassettes
Threads of hair behind your head
and lips between eyelids
Strapped face first
blurred like rewind.
Courtney Roach
October 21, 2007
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Blindfold-
Hiding under broken fingers
Backbones wired to the floorboards
Kissing fists with grip
Dirty thumbnails chewing slaves
I have your breath in my pocket.
Courtney Roach
October 24 - 27, 2007
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Cocoon-
Dirty palms wiping dust on midnight
Pulling autumn from your screams
Beauty selling tears to time zones
Writhing on a haunted mattress
Seasons cold as hearts can be.
Courtney Roach
October 28, 2007
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Slideshow-
Lips waxed and detached
Moments mounted upon thigh highs
Shoving cotton candy colors into windpipes
Dreaming clouds from above
Sleep walking trash bags
From underwater insides
Your cigarettes tear outsides.
Courtney Roach
October 28, 2007
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Infidel-
Ruby lipstick kisses
breaking patterns on wallpaper
I whispered good night to the flowers
You said you'd lie under my covers
Wine glasses swallowed white snow
I caught you reading empty pages.
Courtney Roach
October 28, 2007
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Kinetic-
Clutching dangerous flames of hair
Wrapping legs around your waist
Horizontal love is enough
Bleeding twisted skin
and double-jointed pain again.
Courtney Roach
October 29, 2007
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Mitten-
Buttoned handshakes dirty in the grass
Old like days and days of frozen rain
Pretty with black and fistfuls of glass
Plaid polaroids tread broken bed sheets.
Courtney Roach
October 29, 2007
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Curls-
Chewing sand on ceilings
fit for lovers
Paper wrapping animal candy
Neon pink fingertips dipped in plastic
Controlling creation and starved for the spark.
Courtney Roach
October 29, 2007
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Blonde-
Red liquid on third base
Hard liquor licked your lips
Carpet melting disco balls
And sanitation lined high fives
Dark eyes preying hoods
Train tracks bent with platinum.
Courtney Roach
October 29, 2007
