Stories tagged poem

For the young couple in the stairwell passed on my way to teaching Medieval World Literature

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I have/been you/years before/of course

Gluttony

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I become the accumulation/ of appetites

500 Milkshakes

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If she kept showing her navel all over the place like that

Abstraction Is the Background of Reality

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Written in big letters Across the back window Of an old Pontiac:

Be Prepared

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I thought I would beThe standing champagne glassunmarked and gleamingThe sleeping silverParalleling matesInert as ChinaBut I was the catasleep on the rug

Chroma

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Name me any color you like:Chartreuse Vermillion CattleyaLay me in a bed of rare papyrusamong prismatic …

If I were a poem

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I'd want Matt Dennison to write me.

Speed-Dating Haiku

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Hi, nice to meet you I think I’m falling in love

Flower

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Sitting on the surface of it, near the entrance to its sex, A tiny child sitting up, the flower enormous, The child sitting in the white light That is almost granular.

Temptation

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Lead me not unto grizzled men redolent with Vicodin and Scotch and rough living.

To Don't

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Hatin' on lists with liberal use of the F-bomb.

Revelations

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No snippets for you.

Second Nature

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Women can often be found Sizing up each others’ tits

Come to Jesus

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She closes her eyes and thinks of Jesus suffering.

At the Revolution

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When we go to the streets/ we’ll have no guns