Michael Hetzler is a writer who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. In 2013, he graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Linguistics. He writes for no one and everyone, and usually does so at a snail's pace.
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1. Semiotics
thoughts race and make
a ™ of your mind while
the heart tries
to © this love it
took a while to figure
out that things need to ∆
they finally seem to be you
just hope s|he doesn’t realize
s|he’s > than you
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2. Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica
Beneath the brackish
S|he stalks the roosts
Her proboscis gouged
S|he drained my cache
Now,
when my insides
Beneath the brackish
dome of night
s|he works on sating
an unusual thirst.
S|he stalks the roosts
of unwitting birds
and tastes greedily
of their tears.
S|he has visited me,
in a space between
the unknown and seen.
Her proboscis gouged
my lacrimal gland like
a man on the highway
stabbing into pieces of trash.
S|he drained my cache
of anguish and departed
for another host with
more hydrated corneas.
Now,
when my insides
cry and my eyes strain
and fail to release their
liquids
of catharthis,
I
lie and wonder if
s|he’s
out there
crying
for me.
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3.
not-so-perfect?
How is it, good,
it’s not so is it
something star-hearted
and reel-spun? is it
with
out turns
used with
in it isn’t
-question-
isn’t
the answer
in it?
How is it
isn’t itnot-so-perfect?
How is it, good,
it’s not so is it
something star-hearted
and reel-spun? is it
with
out turns
used with
in it isn’t
-question-
isn’t
the answer
in it?
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4. Checklist
Dread
•Go to bed
•Wake up
•With you.
•Confront everything
•Always
•With you.
•Consolidate
•Stanzas
•Foreboding an
understanding
•Out of this.
•Frequent a way
•Being births distaste
•I
sleep upon
the tangled roots
my memory
•You dabble boldly
mottled in
distorted science.
•Go to bed
•Wake up
•With you.
•Confront everything
•Always
•With you.
•Consolidate
•Stanzas
•Foreboding an
understanding
•Out of this.
•Frequent a way
•Being births distaste
•I
sleep upon
the tangled roots
my memory
•You dabble boldly
mottled in
distorted science.
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5.
You were plying the generality / I’ve learned to quit /nothing more /primitive than acting ful|some| in|tonations of / self-/disregard /lost respect / not something / I am still / equipped to use. Tell me how / this effort matters
You were plying the generality / I’ve learned to quit /nothing more /primitive than acting ful|some| in|tonations of / self-/disregard /lost respect / not something / I am still / equipped to use. Tell me how / this effort matters