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A Matter of TimeA Matter of Time by *Dreamydeb
A Matter of Time
You think Sandy's got vengeance in its eyes?
You see vengeance everywhere don’t you?
In the fast, wet winds churning around your Queens apartment
In the lightning flashes on Ocean Parkway where we walked once like a
Couple of refugees.
The waves will be taller than you, they’re saying
But I imagine you sitting on a grey dock somewhere
Oblivious of official warnings
Your dark wavy hair sticking to your forehead of scattered lies
And losses,
Your hard, careless body framed in endless brine.
I might not be allowed to love you anymore
But the rules of capturing, consuming and catenating happen to be
As fluid as t

Daily DoseDaily DoseDaily Dose by *Dreamydeb
His plan is foolproof this time
To send her a daily new rhyme
Poems about the rain
And the old ball and chain
It's pretty much the perfect crime.
© Debjani Chakravarty 2012

CytokinesisCytokinesis by *Dreamydeb
10.08.10
My insanity
Is seeping into the night
My insanity
My prayers
Are rare
But not tonight
My body
Is alien.
Avenging
The
Loss of meaning you
Imposed on me.
02.09.12
Looking at the above
Sitting in a rattrap
Licking my knees
Tasting the shipwreck
Remembering how your long dark fingers
Played on my neck
Drunk with the desire to be Althusser's wife
You do realize that I am lurking like a lizard in your life?
I am changing colors, but somehow
It's you that remains hidden.
New myths subdivide
Like unknown shapes floating peacefully in
A dim sea of formaldehyde.
Poor you, busy painting your escapescape
Plateau
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