Stories tagged poem

Junior League Therapy

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She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid, it kept falling down

step martyr

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my heartis a brokenstandpipefanningcity water cayenneacross sidewalksgutters ripple redover fast food bagsand cigarette buttsover the feetof priests and pit bullsover the handsof drunksand babiesand into the mouthsof ratsand raconteurs you never oughtadrink…

Still

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Later

Saturday Matinee, Circa 1961

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We are impressed and cheer them on/ in their struggle against the wild/ and unkempt ravages of nature

Letter for K.

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the kind of thing that begins with a fist

Dowser

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Call a geologist instead.

Futurist

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What will become/ of the resource-sucking poor

Explaining To A Dog

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My wife tells me/your dog has vomited/ on the carpet AGAIN!

October

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If they could, what would they call us? Warriors? We never had the chance to see the sun. I've been learning so much here--how to walk fast, how to understand the way Chinatown moves into the Village, how to take the train back to…

The Human Phenom Project

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I sat at the vast graveyard of broken hearts on the mending fence of wonderment unsealing the silence of the wounds I began to put the pieces together like a puzzle against forgetting

Sloth

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(Insert poignant line here)

Sixes and Nines

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"I understand."

Code Book of Apathy

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that lightheaded feeling you have right now is a good thing

The Skill in Gravity

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the ones that have seen the other seasons, let them set up the track

The Figured Surface

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Number the herd. Number/ the baskets after harvest./ Note the reappearance of the moon/ after its short absence.