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Author

Alex Mascarenhas

38 works

Genres: Essays Poetry
Poetry

Alive – or Otherwise

I open my eyes

Low and behold, to my surprise

I am alive still

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Poetry

The Day Rooster Galore Came to Town

He was not born Rooster Galore

Yet Rooster Galore he became

The town he hailed from was of sin

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Poetry

DarkWoman

And so I see the world with black eye whites

I touch you with dark hands

Your insides are less than white

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Poetry

What If There Was No Editing…

Cry, baby, cry

When there’s no one around

When all there is

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Poetry

Heaven and Hell

Love, I will go with you

Wherever you’re off to

Some say that you descended from cloud nine

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Poetry

The Skirt

The first thing I saw

Was a flying skirt

A skirt in the wind

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Poetry

F-Day

The lightness

Free-falling

Freed

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Poetry

A Long Friday Ago

I hate bugs

I can’t stand bug people

Cocoons lie

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Poetry

The Drowning

Hmm... I like your walk, I love watching it
The thickening’s on, the ticking is down
Tick-tack... tick is green; tick-tack... tack is brown

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Poetry

She

She was jealous not of me

She was jealous of herself

If another looked at me

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Poetry

No Ar

Está nas paredes

Um sonho lento, só, urgente

Muito são para ser demente

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Poetry

Jewel of Denial

The sun, he made a late appearance

Hungover, he rose up woozily

Beating, burning, itching bad

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Poetry

Down There

I do not want to die

But I do not care if I did

A day, two months, ten years

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Poetry

Batman and the Maid

However sad for a true man

It has been said that a woman

Either loves or hates; she knows no medium

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Poetry

Hole in the Whole

I looked deep, deep into the whole

And the bottom was there, so close

The bottom... so close... could’ve just swallowed me

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Poetry

Honey and Olives, Somber and Sober

I like to snack on olives

I like healthy treats

But, hon, do you even care

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Poetry

Snow in the Summer

In her spring I met her

Loved her in her summer

Her leaves didn’t see falling

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Poetry

Incubus

Ask me not what I think of you

My dark tongue could desecrate your pupils

Time breathes, time heals, and time knifes your scruples

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Poetry

Thanks, Giving Turkey

A special day for us all

Yet, o turkey, poor, poor turkey

You’d rather yourself recalled

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Poetry

And then… silence

And I died a little bit more.

Fascinating how you can keep on dying even when there’s no more life left in you.

And she was moved by nothing else but the crushing weightlessness of her wants.

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