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How's It Hurting?
Please dumb it down for me I'm tired of playing Pretending I have any clue what I'm doing What's going on? How's it hurting? Hands over...

Paul Clive
Aug 11 min read
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PEMDAS
Unequivocally I need your touch Your love Your lust Inhale me In burning lungs Soaring eyes Let me be lost Layered up Break my bones...

Paul Clive
Jan 51 min read
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Garden in the Dark
When I bury my own needs and my own feelings to try to keep the peace I am left feeling like a ghost.

Paul Clive
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Salem's Lot
Open up
Dysfunctional
Sacred devils and
Fallen angels
Wounded beasts
Healing heads
Rising oceans and
Hurricanes

Paul Clive
Nov 22, 20241 min read
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The Bootstrap
I have built this place to get to her. Projected her like a shadow on my wall. A memory, a ghast, a shade, a thought. And from the fire...

Paul Clive
May 20, 20242 min read
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Lash or Leash
Self-control asleep at the wheel Buried in the kind of task That carries only a sick appeal Back to sleep At arms length Never withheld...

Paul Clive
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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The Witch House
Skittering ghosts Expressionist lines Down darker and deeper Find where it lies Sinking solemnity Inking this against my skin Making...

Paul Clive
Mar 4, 20231 min read
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Rushing
My Heart is Always Rushing It would be more painful to forget More empty to regret Already holding them close Held tight like petals...

Paul Clive
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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Mist Taken
Mist Taken A wisp and nothing else Filled up with regrets Fretting with the best of them Melancholy and cut off Shelves all filled the...

Paul Clive
Sep 21, 20221 min read
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Ingredients
Sometimes we mix ourselves a potion of memory and regret and find ourselves wondering what might have been. There is something a bit like...

Paul Clive
Sep 8, 20222 min read
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Perhaps Not
Feeling pretty done with Summer... Tired of the heat Craggy arid landscape You can look out over what is left And see where water ran...

Paul Clive
Aug 10, 20221 min read
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Coming Down
A poem about the pain and grief of a world with a disturbing inability to provide any kind of closure or justice to the victims of...

Paul Clive
Jun 4, 20221 min read
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Drowning in Hours
Drowning in Hours Maybe in the darkness You can touch the textures The stains on the uniforms unfolding And without eyes see truer colors...

Paul Clive
May 27, 20222 min read
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No Fooling
Being honest with ourselves can be hard, especially in the age of social media where lies are mass marketed to us constantly. Is faking...

Paul Clive
Apr 29, 20222 min read
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Monsters in Margins
We're off the edge of the map, Jack Of Monsters and Margins Off the edge of the map Where monsters are in the margins The devils in the...

Paul Clive
Feb 19, 20222 min read
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Orbit
The seasons change. It can be hard to tell if we'll ever see the sun. Sometimes it's easy to forget, as we build ourselves up and lie to...

Paul Clive
Nov 29, 20212 min read
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The Rock
The Rock Echoes of this piecemeal thunder Crushing clanking gears of stone Unwieldy chains like words unspoken The ungodly strong...

Paul Clive
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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