Stories tagged poem

Bring the Whole Sea

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They would not heed my words at all ‘cause they could not read the writing on the wall They were way too short They were way too tall They took a tumble They took a big fall They met Humpty Dumpty in the bathroom stall They were way too sh

Waiting for the Voice on the Line

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hoping for a happy outcome/ like a kindly voice on the line

Mein Kampfire Went Out!

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I saw them kissing her foot among the literary kampfires They had her dress up and her panties pulled down but they were kissing her foot anyway Her foot! Her glass fuckin’ foot!

Pie

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The pie must’ve done me in The pie must’ve done me in Not drinking Jack Not drinking gin The pie must’ve done me in The pie must’ve done me in Woke up in my truck On my back in the muck The pie must’ve done me in I told the law I g

Yarber's Floating World

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Can’t tell the difference between a torch and the woman’s hair, as she reaches across the candlelit table, throwing a drink in the man’s face. Ice cubes and everything, the contents of the glass casting a shadow across his forehead. His hair als

To Fill the Hollows

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most famously, a small/ writhing dog. A thousand casts were made/ before they stopped

Shopping At The Income Gap

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Next door to the Gap in the Meat Market area of NYC was the Baby Gap Then, of course, the Income Gap. Besides all the big fancy designer dress shops like Stella McCartney, Dress Barn, and all the rest.

Bedfellows

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A mutiny of voices, enclosed. The sing-song of verse, the steady drone of prose.

Puppet ABC - 1

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I am not a Road Scholar, ladies & gentlemen, though I’ve been On the Road more than once. Do not mistake me for a bum. I am not a hobo, homeless or otherwise, in this life or any other, I am not a bum, I insist. But I d

Puppet ABC - 2

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I clearly see the squirrels of negativity all around me, ladies & gentlemen. I sensed they were there filling in the blank spaces as I read down the page, prior to arriving at the meaning of everything.

Dürer’s Eve

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The consequences follow from here: the shine of forbidden knowing the apple soon offered to Adam the twined Serpent’s hidden fangs

Self-Portrait with Pipe and Bandaged Ear

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His ear is swathed by a large white bandage that runs down under the chin. Dressed in a heavy dark green coat, buttoned at the neck. Streaks of orange relieve the darkness of the green. Purple and black cap on his head. Calmly smoking a pipe.

How Things Fall Apart

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The leaves/ seek reunion with the ground// and leave the oak tree naked/ in December’s cold.

Back East

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Could even drift off to New Orleans for a slow sip of a hurricane

Syndrome (re-mix)

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The brain had elected itself Judas, sleazy loud with silver jangling In this grand guignol of new and quickly old concussion Limbs roasted themselves to occult temperatures Yet remained whitely chilled under air that strove to rub, scrape, signify …