Stories tagged poem

Dementia and Anger at the Error of God's Ways

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There's enough night sky To make a difference With an abundance of Flying saucers Rotating their fluorescence In our eyes

Modulus of Elasticity

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The limbs lift again,

Acknowledgements

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I sit in a café and watch the near palms of summer swaying against the far ridge of hills and young girls walking along in their sleeveless summer dresses. Their shoulders speaking their long history of sex and future children,

Grandma (My Mother) At Christmas

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A tanka/haiku poem about grandma getting run over by a reindeer.

How the Nipple Works, in the Imagination

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I say the weather is cold. You say we’re living in a modernish duplex in the West Village and the girls downstairs moved out leaving all the windows and doors open in the middle of the night. “Who moves out leaving all the windows and doors open?” you a

Cut His Finger Playing Air Guitar

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How long to make something pretty?

Sorrows and Secrets

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the river parts it's waves like crow's/wings part the air/accepting sorrows

Jolly Old Nick (Black As Hell)

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A tanka poem about Jolly Old Nick being black as hell.

dead

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probably not going to Heaven probably not going to Hell

Regarding Bill Yarrow’s Assertion that Herrick Was a Voyeur (Poor Julia: Violated, but Immortal)

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the observation, at the end, more/ important than the being there—

MC of the SS

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The President of the Board of Sanitation Workers had a business card printed up that read: Manure Connoisseur, to impress ladies at the Blue Collar Bar. Definitely not the Shit Shovelers, or SS, as some of his co-workers had suggested.

Thanks, Target!

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A tanka poem inspired by the 40 million debit card numbers stolen from Target stores since Black Friday last month.

The Nudist Weather Lady

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She worked for a Nudist Weather Channel As a fill-in nudist weather lady When the regular nudist weather lady Came down with a cold Or was otherwise indisposed So she had to learn how to point at a cold front moving in While looking cute in

Stop Kicking Your Sister

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... And remember to Clean up after your elf. .

Is Assaults the Void

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Light interrogates the dark.