Stories tagged poem

Old Soul

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She’s an old soul who was scattered to the winds like a thousand butterflies and a moth She has no center and flits from event to event and can’t miss out on a thing, because crikey, what if she missed something important? And the m

The Deep End

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Like Jimi plucking steel strings

Justice for Mr. Boogedy

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A damnably intrusive rapping tapping, rappity tap tap tapping...and nothing more.

Is This Is The End

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Tell them words are math counting forever four letters of truth

Weltschmerz

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I clearly see the squirrels of negativity all around me or at least I sense that they are there, filling in the blank spaces as I read down the page prior to arriving at the meaning of everything. The greenness of figs before they

New film: Thank God, Father. ... with Al Cappuccino

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He needs to get free She needs a lube job They were made for each other

Silence of Joy

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like a reflection vanishes

Apprehensions in the Garden of Gethsemane

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The thumb, incarnate, knows/ the moment of the misplaced hammer blow;/ the tongue, incarnate, the cool invigoration/ of water drawn from the dark well.

Collapsing Scenery

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Because we are all ex-patriots...

Hank and Nettie

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I told mamma I was leavin’ you –/ you and your hard drinkin’, devil/ writin’ ways,

Bus Ride Through SF

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Bud Light, B. O. and Freeloader Heaven, they step onto the back of the bus without a cent We pass by the Karma Wash but no one gets off the bus We pass by the Endless Soup and Salad Kitchen where we witness a crowd swarming over a ch

Head Over Feet.

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And if I lived a thousand lives...

Wordswhisperlove

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His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the wick of a pretty little candle.

Source Code

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....the first/ in a long history of indignities.

Here is a game...

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I give you three words dripping wet with whatever and you take them, harbor them...