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Halloween 2024

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Trooper & Talon

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"Revenant"

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I've jammed the needle

far past the vein.

I taste toxins my lips have

never touched.

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I've left home to better understand

why I'm wrong,

why I'm flawed,

why I'm still here.

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I've bathed in waters soft and hard,

basked in sunlight

that spoke in an unfamiliar tongue.

Still my hair has split and fallen,

skin has paled and peeled away.

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The clouds have picked up speed

in their conquest of the heavens.

My pneumatic mind vibrates,

rattles the viscous dreams from my eyes.

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Here I am back home,

with nothing to show for my travels

save for some sepia memories

which blend in with all else I've forgotten

like bits of wildfire ash

caressing twenty year old asphalt,

once smooth and black, now

cracked and sad.

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No longer is there comfort

in closing my eyes.

No more does sleep bring revenue

to my soul.

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DLMC 8/10/2024 inspired by the song "Ocean Planet" by Gojira

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"A Man Can Dream"

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Jetliners nose dive

one after another.

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Canons emerge from

the oceans surface.

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Artillery rounds

are launched in my direction.

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Everyone is faceless,

friend and foe alike.

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The sky bleeds,

the clouds are blackened.

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I'm in fatigues again

and I'm naked thereafter.

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I'm afraid.

I'm always afraid.

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I die every time

I close my eyes.

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DLMC 8/9/2024

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Chicago 8/6-7/2024 one of the nicest and largest cities I've ever been to. First time ever having Chicago deep dish and I'll just say I have a reason to come back!

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Hello folks, been awhile. Writing has slowed because life has sped up, and has had me very involved with well, many things outside of my writing life, and my Tumblr presence for that matter.

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I originally had planned to have this book out last year before Xmas, but that didn't happen. I tried to make it happen in the beginning of the year via Amazon kdp but that fizzled as well, as whoever prints for them didn't do a great job and I couldn't get the issues fixed. Their support is non-existent.

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Finally, through Barnes & Noble, I've self published this little book. I'm happy with it and I'm happy to share it. If you decide to indulge, you not only have my genuine thanks, but my wish for you to really enjoy it.

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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/metal-memoirs-david-candito/1146045520

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Happy midsommar

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Just a Midwestern man and his Brazilian boy. Juninho Trooper Candito!

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Great writer producing a great poem

Come, be my swimmer

we’ll recline

identities slipping from lanyards

skin scalding on concrete poolside retreats

You a salvation, still thirsty

like an upturn t-

ea

Baptism never as sweet as the way your legs

lock in the aqua blue

Hours eating hours

while the sun devours the shadows

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These are my two out of three of the things I love most in my life. When they leave me, so will an enormous part of my heart. Trooper & Talon.

Trooper is my boy, named after Clone/Stormtroopers from Star Wars lore. He found us in Rio De Janeiro Brazil in January 2023 when he jumped out of a bush at me. I carried him home and he's been with us ever since. Flying internationally with a cat is something I don't plan to ever do again.

Talon is our sweet little girl, named after Darth Talon, another Star Wars character relatively unknown. She is the sweetest creature as well as the nuttiest cat I've ever owned. She's so lovely, friendly, playful and needy and well, kind of chonky. She found us in a cat cafe in Kansas City, KS.

They are each other's opposite in every way. They live beautifully together and complete each other.

They complete us.

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"Talon"

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Spontaneous little sister,

purrfect pal to your chill

little mister.

Boyfriend, brother,

it's one or the other,

whatever the case,

we're all glad we didn't miss ya.

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Jet black and

noodly in the arms,

silky and smooth with

Precious chonky charms.

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Never thought I'd say,

never thought there'd be another day

that I'd fall in love again,

and it's happened, yes,

in the very best way.

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Wide-eyed little friend,

not everything is a toy...

But I digress, I don't mind,

for you give me so much joy.

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DLMC 5/31/2024 my cat Talon, named after Darth Talon from the Star Wars universe.

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"Wind Wraith"

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I remember when my

unbroken skin

could graze against granite.

Whether weathered by time

or tribulation,

I miss most the rock

which felt me back.

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And you weren't a stone at all,

were you, love?

Now, but a memory,

desperate to keep from fading

like the imprint of a fossil

crudely excavated

by the sweating hands of an amateur.

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I remember yes,

when my unbroken skin

were something tangible,

something other than

a hollow vestibule, keeping company

with only the wind, when its breezy mood

so chooses.

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The seasons,

like the love I felt before I fell

have all fallen away.

A harmless haunt here, I remain,

so that even a grain

of your legacy may stay.

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DLMC 5/30/2024

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"Feminine Steam Engine"

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Couldn't tell you

All the fucks I've had

the displeasure of working with.

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Couldn't show you enough

finished products to be proud of

prior to the signature on

that thin piece of paper

saying I belong to someone else.

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And I do belong to her.

Revolve around her.

Am indebted to her,

and all the favors she does me.

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Woman is strong.

Woman works harder

than half the hard assess

I've taken bullshit from,

no excuses,

not a lick of complaints,

no reports of pain,

wont stay inside

even in the rain.

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She keeps me in line

does so looking mighty fine.

Child of the sun and ocean,

kicking ass and taking names

under pine needle and snow fall.

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There is no contest,

there is no discussion.

She completes my life,

she is my wife.

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DLMC 01/09/2022

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"Feinting Dawn"

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One day

the sun will fall

beneath the floor of the stars

and yet our horizon

will be eaten by a jaw of flames.

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The ocean,

once the strongest body

helping mountains keep their composure,

will freeze with fright.

with nowhere to run

will it wave itself back into the void

this realm breached from.

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Our souls

will shed our skins

as our eyes do shed

current tears,

currents of strife,

memories of pain

memories forgotten,

memories stripped

from the brain

as you disperse into dust.

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Amid dead planets

and stars now receiving

broadcasts from decades past

will your sacrifice,

will our destiny in death

give birth to life,

after life.

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Humanity rejects its history,

who among us is to say

earth hasn't been here before,

and before that, even.

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We are a significance

smaller than the mind of a god

could determine.

Yet so many of your voices

are louder than I care to hear,

opinions my sanity

can entertain no longer.

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I yearn for the night

which survives

the strongest dawn.

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DLMC 4/3/2023

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"Deprivation"

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Your lips tasted like

the grey shadows

within rain clouds

just as they'd dripped dry

from the morning rain.

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There was something missing

from under your skin.

You were pale, lacking warmth,

expression as bold as a

faded dandelion,

hanging tired in the shade.

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Would honey allowed

to leak into limbo,

I'd imagine its scent

to be of your own,

though i wont know,

I'll never know.

Not the scent of you,

or any other wish, beyond

the drifting incense burned

a thousand years past,

when a few knew my name.

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Tears, even ethereal,

do not run from

my hollow sockets,

yet I mourn you

as if you

were the ghost.

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The absence of your kiss

crushes the heart I lack.

A weightless impact

I comprehend

but cannot feel.

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The gods are cruel

beyond even

the barriers of time.

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DLMC 07/18/2023 inspired by the Corpse Bride by Tim Burton

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"Undead Ultimatums"

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Tonight inside

the devil's den.

I give you now

the where and when.

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What you'll hear and

what you see

may not be

the man that's me.

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Should you fright

amid the night,

embrace, your soul

the wicked light

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of what you feel

and what you sense,

such magic beckons

so intense.

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So come and go

or stay forever.

Under my wing

the end is never.

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DLMC 10/13/2023 spooky season poetry. Inspiration for this one comes from N.I.B. by Black Sabbath.

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"Coven"

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We've come full circle,

us and the moon,

our bodies and souls.

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Let us whisper into the night,

embrace the hour where

the veil is sheer

and our will to resist temptation, 

weak.  

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The pewter moon fills

our eyes like a 

wine decanter into 

an eager chalice.

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Slow spilling mercury,

cosmic and enchanting,

makes the mind heavy.

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Spells, incantations, 

wishes and wonders 

flow in and out of us

and warm the circle,

curling around our limbs

as does the incense smoke.

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Righteous in a different way,

misunderstood

yet still we pray.

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We might be damned,

but we're no sinners.

for in the end 

there are no winners.

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Nobody makes it out of life,

alive.

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DLMC 10/31/2023