Stories tagged poem

Loveless Lover

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Love me like a crutch Love me when I'm strong

Politiclish

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We were busy painting pictures of False Hope on the face of Reality.

Indirectly Found Jesus

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had half my head shaved like I lost a bet.

PINK CARNATIONS

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I am quite the wreck!

Begin Being

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My lover passes the healing comb through the hair of my soul during the night as she retouches my youth, climbing the infinite tree of hope against the permanent limbs of gravity.

Salem the Dead

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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead. Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya, he was brought lifeless from the womb, yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.

A Skeptic’s Faith

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Sunrise steals

Looking Down the Road To Life

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I’m over here taking my clothes off. I’m lying on this towel on my back in the grass in broad daylight, and I don’t care if anyone sees us or not. Come inside me, right now, right here. This could be the last time, and I don’t care

The Great Curtain Calls Up the River of Light

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You're going to have to go in there and beat the paint out of birds. Use the frozen feet of dinosaurs if you have to. Put anxiety back in their dreams to get them out of their cloud.

Green Flash At Sunset

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front of the postcard is a campfire with the word ‘Utopia’ written in comic sans

Poem on the Table

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Its intelligence won’t be/ diminished when you take/ a bone saw to its cranium

Spring in November

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It is dead, for a time. Sometimes we are all dead for a time. Our lives leave off, sleep under the weight of snow.

A Rich Future

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Also in development,/ the anatomically perfect robot/ pool boy and naughty maid,

The Unpaid Job of Dreaming

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Lately I’ve been involved in the unpaid job of dreaming, and it hasn’t been pretty. No time off, that’s the first thing, no lunch break, no coffee. No vacations or paid maternity or paternity leave, in the event of the birth of the child of

November 6th

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Need not remember, the 6th of November.