white knuckles
nose is bleeding
powder fading
sweat is dripping
wrist is scaring
head is aching
had a bad day

©  Jeff Kimball

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lamp knocked over
pills covering the floor
sea of blood
drowning into the walls and onto the floor
smile for the camera

©  Jeff Kimball

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bathtub rising overflowing
red trickling the floor staining
knife penetrating through
flesh melting
knocking door
only a beautiful silence answers
kicking lumber breaking through
the horizon fading
treading through the swamp
ground uneven
aching discoveries
paradox of a conclusion
answers unheard, unspoken
disorienting consequences
rejecting any meaning
of anything and everything

©  Jeff Kimball

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