Stories tagged poem

The Human Bible

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Fat, religious, full of himself,

New Glasses

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The twenties// were stylishly Modern- Tom with his/ Fisher King and Corbu with his house/ for the brother of Gertrude Stein.

The Silence of the Library

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I don't mind the Silence of the Lambs so much. It's the silence of the library That bothers me.

Book

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No second printing, the first being an ample supply.

That's all, folks...

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I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons.

A Murder of Crows

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Six of them pecked and scratched/ something at their center/ in the middle of Virginia’s lawn—

Defiant of Gravity

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I see you in sleep,/ the sands of rememberance collecting/ in the corners of my eyes.

Super-Tweet

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141 characters.

The Exhaustion of Dreams

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I like it best when I wake up And the wild rain of dreaming ends.

Big Top Boogie

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I had the blues. I was feeling down the day the circus came to town. There was cash in my pocket and a bag of weed. I went to the circus with a desperate need to renew my faith in the good of mankind. Perhaps under the big top some laughs I’d find.

When All Danger of Frost Is Past Haiku

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the last frost of spring. Replant

Orbital Mechanics

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Another abandoned comsat falls/ in a fiery arc that no one notices.

Portrait Of Junky Summer

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Old scars at night burn hot and bright Deep in her heart in Texas She rides around with the ragtop down Driving her brand new Lexus

Summer of Mary

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You were sophisticated in a way I/ didn’t understand but coveted.

ScarCity

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I flipped a large cardboard coin On one side it said Abundance But on the other side it said Scarcity I went to the store And began packing everything I could get Into my shopping cart But the things that started spilling over Onto the