5:

I built my house UP

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       D you.        Drew lines in sand

                               - shifty diagrams -

                   to ease perspective skewed

                                    (printed, blue).

Simple, un

   -idol-   

              ed concentration

blurs tantalized

on words of no scribe;

                     not guide

                            guise

              bribed demise.

-not mother or brother:

A lover to walk beside.

Like building a wall up on ether

(on exhale)

expectation heeds limitation

as a hammer sound, a nail lost.

.. in structure bricked down in aching,

circled breaking,

nobody wins where everyone’s boss.

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I built my house U

on blueprints pressed in sand,

with a WHITE

            FEAR of leaving,

                          teasing,

               tipped

    erase water

 receding

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the face of plans,

       dripping

          out

          lips

like sand from the hand:

       a washed up sound

       of seaside diagrams.