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Poetry || SubmissionsPoems by Corinne Dekkers"i'd be breaking windows, throwing rocks at your house"lit up the sky once, lit it up in blue and binocular red 11 - sand and hotel and repeating cds. an understated understanding: i broke a promise somewhere... falling through the cracks in the laminate flooring, picking up pennies and nickels that don't flip my way (it was always an issue for quarters), spending dollars i don't have - ice tops and barroom warmth - looking always looking for the other half to the whole. a few things about nets, wind, and waterhypnotized by a boy in a black hat, singing over and over and over again about drowning and sinking ships. i have no pictures of this, lack the ink and chemicals to commemorate anything from any recent era. the songs i caught as cliche opened up, right over the skyway. aren't captains supposed to stay with their vessels, bound by duty and a steel kind of love?treading water, watching my shoes and cups and suitcases sink, low low low, to a place with no color, no memories of happiness. he told me he thought i'd forget, that the instance and emotion would seep out day by day until there was nothing left. just. nothing. promises, solemn oaths. mountains and islands and strings of volcanoes of understanding. too much of nothing leaves me numb, no good reason, trying to reason my way out and back to the top. don't look downlittle pictures, snapshots or photocopies of things i bring back. sold my heart, sold it all, come up many dollars short, regretful and empty. taking the easy way, taking it easy, turning from duties and sleep... its all for the weak. but the weeks go on, the kids outside were screaming, and those miles under those kitty-scratched tires roll by and by and by. Corinne Dekkers lives in the Sunshine City of St. Petersburg, Florida. She attends the University of South Florida full time, and serves coffee and drinks whiskey part time. Today's Situation
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