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i am beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry

  • Post author:John McElhenney
  • Post published:February 29, 2024
  • Post category:mcelhenney / poetry

i am beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry

introduction: if a poet on a winter’s night

  1. in the dead of winter
  2. where have you gone
  3. i am beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry
  4. code word
  5. giving permission
  6. who i want to be
  7. a prawn
  8. threads and bloodlines
  9. each broadcast
  10. this is what i do
  11. breathing underwater
  12. elevation
  13. drug of choice
  14. lie within
  15. engineering
  16. no rescue
  17. just outside of your front door
  18. dead end investigation
  19. never give up
  20. pop tart principles
  21. the big slide
  22. whispering to the stars
  23. there will be days
  24. alive with pleasure
  25. jackery
  26. better let you go
  27. i am calm i am storm
  28. see you on the flipside
  29. ghost in the shell
  30. wonder what darkness
  31. cracking open
  32. i am not responsible anymore

extra: morning after :: video storytelling

ancillary content: if you are here, you should see this as well
the one and the zero – a novel – spoken in time

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