Stories tagged poem

Don't Let the World Explode in Your Face

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If the world explodedin your face, you'd still have choicesYou could be baptized by windor bury yourhead in soil And there's always the difference betweenchocolate and rainbowsprinklesThing is, you'd be remindedhow no one ever evensays "excuse me"…

X-Day

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Let us now proclaim a new holiday for ex’s called X-Day Let’s throw out weddings and first kisses and that old haunted V-Day (Virginity Day) X-Day will soon take over as the major holiday Tell the boss you’ll be taking off

Shedding the Skin of Past Lives

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I bow my head and shed the antlers of past lives I no longer butt heads with the universe but I miss my curse and can’t do worse I throw myself in reverse and rehearse the early scenes of science and my full meat diet that sent

Gastronomy

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your olive-pitting thumbs

Skyline Driver

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watchin' the cat toy with the mouse/ as I felt for real what all those young boys/ wanted all those years

Lobster's Alive

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Oh, no! the lobster’s still alive staring out at us from the freezer at the fish shop sitting on top of the other dead fish and ice its large claws taped shut with orange rubber bands one eye stalk moving occasionally wonde

Reading at the Anatomy Museum

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If you know how, all bodies can be read like books, like poems, like scraps of song

Balm (excerpt)

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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast

Humility

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My heart is like a piece of wax waiting for a seal.

Venus Envy

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Our illustrious President no piker himself has revealed making 5.5 mil this past year while the rest of us went bust He stated he expects to see men on Mars in his lifetime Men on Mars? What’s next, women on Venus? And now I m

Garden Light

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Sometimes I sit in the garden and listen to the sounds of the evening:

You'll Have To Come Out Because I Won't Let You In

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the pollen of your kisses and the shouts of your love shaking the sky

All's Well

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she haunts the hall smelling cedar of dog and salt of boys [62 words]

Just Like I Read the News

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two died that year / well, you know . . . . / baby you can drive my hearse / it couldn't get much worse

Bright Red

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They shoveled coal into the furnace of the city so the ghosts would be warm for their haunting.