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Another New
Year’s Encounter by Rp Verlaine Our
lips meet by accident
in a room with
no doors where strangers
watch us grope
through curses, camouflaging
want with animal
sounds for nihilists, detached as grave robbers, eyes glowing in
the dark who watch until
leaving with
an emptiness
filled across a floor,
less a stage
than a prism
asking for blood. Our smiles,
the lone hint we’re
enthralled being watched by
those who see nothing deviates who admire our sharp
fingernails on each other’s
throats… still seeking
the distance to
somehow learn how
to let go.
Feeding The
Voyeurs by Rp
Verlaine She exhaled,
dying from
boredom money provided
in the dark
void drowning swimmers
navigate. Her open designer
blouse an invitation
I’m sure few
resisted, beckoned as she whispered: “take a closer
look.” With trouble
in mind her lips came
forward till I was
aware of eyes watching
us, we laughed and left them hungry. Outside summer skies all seemed like
cotton pale junkies
inject from. But while she
talked butterflies
in me screamed. Later I would miss
her shadow
touching mine and return
to the bar only to join
those eyes In the background
watching.
The Indefinite Chance Machine by
Rp Verlaine Like uncollected
change, the
love she throws away in unnumbered
trysts
with ghosts of her past and present become the invisible game
of
chance already receding
in memory,
vanishing
from
sight with
illusory reveal
in the walking
shadows of
lovers leaving her
bed and her again
lost as the change
and
dust under it. Rp Verlaine, a retired English teacher living
in New York City, has an MFA in creative writing from City College. He has several
collections of poetry including Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers
(2018) and Lies From The Autobiography 1-3 (2018-2020).
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