I had a poetry class with Charlie (Black Eye Sunrise) years ago, at UCSD. I'd never written any poetry before, not really, and it's absolutely criminal that we were in the same class. I think his pieces are incredible and I could read them all day, which I basically do.

No More Poems to the Dead
Listen,
Be still for a moment.
In the year that I lost you
I drank more than I ate,
Roads stank of curbs
Which reeked of red
And peered over
Looming space.
I said:
Hear now, in the hour of my undoing,
I reject you, oh my dead friend,
Your fearful symmetry cannot fold me
Into the syllogism of paper cranes.
We are done,
Finally.
There is nothing left of us
Not even a memory,
Not even love,
And this evening is just
Another crest
Against the chest
While my heart still beats
To be broken.

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