let’s not run away
next time they hunt us down
let’s stay there and look
at their bewildered faces
let’s sit on the dirty curb
have a smoke (though both of us don’t)
and watch as they’re chased away
by a freezing november rain
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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it’s just another night
they go home by taxi
i go the other way
the driver looks at me
he asks where to stop
but i stay silent
it’s just another night
they go home by taxi
i go from myself
and now my only thought
that i’m short of money
for such a lifelong ride
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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her eyes had become shallow
men were drowning in them before
now they merely slosh through
and don’t even take off their shoes
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
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This is when
I assert myself.
And this is
when you try
to convince me otherwise.
So happy I’m deaf!
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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needle always points
this way, not the other way
life, straight and simple
tapping glass facade
with a time-worn forefinger
for something has changed
north has gone astray
besotted with fragrant air
cherry blossom front
thread follows needle
pilgrims wander to the east
archipelago
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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unbolt me 