We might remember
things that happened long ago
because we knew them
as the possible
we have not experienced
until they happened
and then instead of
remaining fixed in our minds
they appear to be
as far from us as
we want them to be because
they are not over
even forgotten
they stay about to happen
instant as distant
events holding us in place
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AprilPoWriMo 29
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AprilPoWriMo 28
Why with so much time
infinitely spooling out
is never enough
no one knows how much
easy platitudes to make
the most of every
moments all we have
little do we acknowledge
they are eternal
why you remember
unique characteristics
no one may else know
but for the telling
this is how the water breaks
the gleaming of eyes
the birth of the universe
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AprilPoWriMo 27
Write something about
the way when singers end
their consonants together
they might as well be one voice
Write about how sometimes
you cannot make out
the words but you know
by their faces the song
Write something else about
the only proof needed
for the existence of God
is music
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AprilPoWriMo 26
Century still young
despite the fact that twenty
years ago too soon
what will we grow up
to be or not as the case
may be will not yet
this experience
too good not to share and yet
know it leaves us still
droning in endless
cacophony grows restless
even in the dark
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AprilPoWriMo 25
Probably not worth
worrying about the world
children inherit
foregone conclusion
those who could make the biggest
difference—didn’t
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AprilPoWriMo 24
Running out of time
before getting to know you
not sure what to do
build some furniture
maybe while wondering who
you will be with us
how eager you are
to take a first breath out here
and make us breathless
questioning no doubt
who we thought we were without
your breathing with us
turning inside out
what we thought we were about
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AprilPoWriMo 23
Everybody seems to be rushing back
to bad habits that made society
so unlivable for so very long
applaud proliferation of spittle
in tightest quarters imaginable
even those who would overthrow the state
have a chance to win it all in midterms
what makes us incapable of taking
the evidence before us and making
reasonable decisions like shaking
a plague to its knees by keeping distance
it wasn’t so unpleasant to fabric
our faces screaming inside of our hearts
togetherness keeps us a world apart
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AprilPoWriMo 22
There might be time to know where the time goes
likely it will not be in this lifetime
too many minutes to accumulate
preceded by hours decades months days years
seconds are the only response to sweets
worth taking into account or measure
abundance of molecules on the way
to their dissolution insoluble
energy neither created destroyed
by looking what might be the other way
universe ever expands to a point
in the distant past shared distinct by all
a spark the only light a burning flame
continues to kindle forgets its name
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AprilPoWriMo 21
How fortunate to have a record of
these days I thought would never come again
and true to form they haven’t at least not
in nonverbal shapes the way a guitar
enables chords to ring out of thin air
disturbed by these vibrations static clay
responds by taking on a resemblance
eventually out of the motion
it is easy to figure takes place once
only the universe begs to differ
these brief moments important years your life
written in permanent ink on the skin
the thin membrane that makes the past present
particulars turn the same different
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AprilPoWriMo 20
Falling over boxes in the basement
placed strategically badly in my dreams
where all the stuff seems to accumulate
in anticipation of later points
heretofore unforeseen for a short time
wait awhile until the next dream appears
what other synapse will my unconscious
choose to pursue to no immediate
avail except the true recognition
the mind seems to live without consciousness
grasping onto what might be familiar
for awhile until it is forgotten
only to bring it back for a moment
you are not even awake to know it
Joshua Keiter 