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Learn the right lesson:
Good girls get nicer cages;
All graves are the same.

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August 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Flowers want to be
Beautiful, but even more
They want to be fruit.

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May 21, 2026 at 8:23 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Can't dream while drowning
The demands of what is
Drown out what could be
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May 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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This lifetime's lessons
Are mostly about my own
Insignificance

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May 30, 2026 at 1:56 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Thrilled now to inhale
Fall's first chilly morning air
Almost missed the bus

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October 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
My cat loves me, so
As I sleep he reaches out
To claw my nipple

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October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
staggering homeward

exhausted from the long day

gotta feed the cats

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September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
We break the silence
And break the spell that conceals
Possibilities.

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September 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
One can no longer
Go barefoot in one's own house
Once Legos have come.
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May 26, 2026 at 2:14 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Lonely, sad and scared
And the long day ahead only
Promises housework.

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October 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Daughter's breakfast scraps
She's right; my toast is bangin'
She's a lucky kid

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October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Made it home again
To nights of open windows
Crickets and thunder

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September 23, 2026 at 11:48 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Haiku coach is mad
"Drop and give me seventeen!"
Kick him in the eye.

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October 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Let's have a parade
To show how much we love war
And its armed martyrs

But no holiday
For millions of civilians
Our sweet wars murdered

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May 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
a sobering thought

yes, a man could live for this

and die chasing it

(1/9/12)
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September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Twin Americas
Sharing nothing but the name
This one's not my home
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January 22, 2026 at 5:34 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Systemic problems
Will not respond to any
Solitary acts.

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September 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Sometimes seeing things
Just as they simply are is
The door to beauty.
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August 11, 2026 at 11:33 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
when you swim upstream
it's harder, but at least you
know you're not driftwood

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April 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Here is your hostage,
Your highness; here's your hostage
And here is my heart.

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July 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
The worst part of the
"Loneliness of modern men?"
It's self-inflicted.

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October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Sometimes I wonder
If Audre Lourde understands
How tools really work

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October 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
Pretending to fall
Off the wagon is falling
Off a different one
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September 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
His moral compass
If he ever had one, now
Always points due south
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September 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
paulanomaly.bsky.social
your patient spirit

on the other side of this

knocking on the world

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September 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM