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jack h. davis commented on the post, pins 1 year, 1 month ago
pushpin paper doll,
my wedding dress tacked on at my clavicles and hips;
polished up from my toes to my lips;
bought out by someone’s daddy’s dowry check
and still nothing to write home about
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jack h. davis commented on the post, flip 1 year, 1 month ago
sometimes i lie on my bed, upside-down, and let my hair course beyond the mattress, well down past where the sheets come off kilter and come to rest against the dingy seventies carpet in my second-floor apartment […]
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jack h. davis commented on the post, medical 1 year, 3 months ago
kings, face down–that’s the worst card you could have pulled.
everything’s a phone call away.
every one is guernica.
there are four little shining brown eyes peering out from under dirty blonde, too-long bangs […] -
jack h. davis wrote about the word bench 2 years, 2 months ago
When the star player hits the floor, it’s time to break out the smaller guns.
For example,
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jack h. davis wrote about the word outlet 2 years, 3 months ago
You pour your emotions like poison into the vents and it blows through the complex in a network of breezes. I’m not the cure you’re looking for. I’m not the dream you thought you had.
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jack h. davis wrote about the word sage 2 years, 3 months ago
I don’t have anything for you, today. So many words and nowhere to put them.
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jack h. davis wrote about the word invent 2 years, 3 months ago
My dad has patents on things I don’t understand– big pieces of metal folded into accordions, but they don’t make any music. He used to try to explain, but I think he got tired, and rightfully so. I am proud of him, he is a better engineer than I can hope to be a writer. [...]
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jack h. davis wrote about the word tangle 2 years, 3 months ago
I’d never slept like that before. Just know you can’t pin everything on what I wanted, boy–I never had the thought that limbs could stack like that, all poised for a fire. There were knee joints piled high, elbows and torsos and ankles and spines, bone settled and fused to bone under 200 thread count [...]
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jack h. davis wrote about the word charge 2 years, 3 months ago
Lead the brigade (the choice is yours).
Steal my card (it’s broken anyway).
Redline battery (counting down percentages).
“Bulls on Parade” (been thinking of you lately).
Sleep away the uncertainty (and life begins anew). -
jack h. davis wrote about the word needle 2 years, 3 months ago
Funny thing. Tonight we talked about it, and I never thought much of it. Never thought much of him, honestly. Still don’t, honestly. Honestly. But there’s something about a couple of PBR and a couple of hours after midnight, talking about all the things in the world with sharp enough edges to cut–needles and scissors; [...]
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jack h. davis wrote about the word fragrance 2 years, 3 months ago
Same time, same place–same hair, same shampoo. Same face, same eyes. You’re just…the same. When I drove two hours or when I walked seven minutes, it doesn’t matter. You always look, smell, feel the same. When you took the time to think, “Hey, maybe I should kiss her,” it would have been nice if the [...]
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jack h. davis posted an update: 2 years, 3 months ago
jeezy heezy deezy in the…heezy, again. jack house davis. makes sense.
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jack h. davis wrote about the word pills 2 years, 3 months ago
Think of the summer and how hot it was and how we felt then, fingers intertwined. Yellow like sunshine, blue like the sky, white like the clouds smudged across it. I was happy because I always felt like I was asleep–face and hands numb, like lying upside seven-years-old down in my dad’s leather recliner. Keeping [...]
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jack h. davis is in the house. 2 years, 3 months ago
jack h. davis @jerseylumber ?
active 1 year, 1 month ago
jeezy heezy deezy in the…heezy, again. jack house davis. makes sense. View
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