Stories tagged poem

femme fatale

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her knife cleaves a single red hair

Poetry Is Dead

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I know he’s got that Shakespearean forehead But what the heck I got Bohemian balls I got Bohemian balls So to hell with him Come live with me again Come live with me instead I know poetry’s dead But what the heck So’s God, it’s bee

Duration and Frequency

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for spirits and demons have no life/ but what imagination gives

It's the New Age of Bullshit

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They’re young and haughty. 27’s still a long ways off. They read about the famous, not the dead. Dusty dragonflies will not land upon them, and they are really only in love with the dishwasher. Now there’s a problem. Poetry is dead,

Lapses

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The body does what a body must

Yes, the End Time Is Near

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We’ll just choke on all our shit

Not by Choice but Circumstance

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With small and fleshy hands/ I scratch at enigmatic stones,

Submission, Rejection, Wonder

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I wish I could remember what I sent to these magazines. They tell me how much they enjoyed reading my pieces. They always do, and using the exact same words too. It’s quite amazing. Though they never accept anything. Just cannot remember what I se

Chapel of a Latter Day Agoraphobic

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The thrum and the thrust// have beaten conviviality out of me.

The First Curse

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Do you think it’s true the first curse was uttered when Eve lost her hymen?

Tuesday

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Only last Friday, he was introduced/ around, smiling, healthy,/ a fine young man.

Selfie

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a few numbers/ and a handful of their operations,

Hive

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Each brief life is lived in dedication// to the honeyed buzz of the colony,

Hope Springs Eternal

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If I had a goat, I’d name it Eternal, because he’d be, like, springing everywhere, if he was a young goat.

The Kept Man

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If the Titanic rises from the bottom of the sea, I will meet you on deck, in a deck chair. Fully dressed for a change.