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We will collapse in a storm of images
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I’m up to my kneecaps
in mockery and swill, and …
Excuse Me,
I’m Writing a Poem here?
Thank you. Sheesh!
As I was saying,
I’m up to my kneecaps in mockery and swill.
And I meet someone who
names all his fish after
people he doesn’t l
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Memory is unreliable, of course-/
re-coloring savored scenes-/
paler here, more saturated there-
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We were busy painting pictures of False Hope
on the face of Reality.
Tattoos really.
But they faded with time.
And I now know this:
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
I saw an older writer in a slouched-down Fedora,
gray beard and long sc
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I’ve found him, all right,
I just can’t seem to coax him out of his hole.
He’s hiding inside like a mouse,
peering out at the social milieux
which is not, apparently, very promising.
I wanted to get him working on my latest novel,
The Less
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Hanging out at the
Imaginary Friends Café
with all my imaginary friends,
poets, itinerant musicians, etc.
Writing close to nothing.
Can’t finish a thought,
so I’m composing a book called
“Not Quite Haiku,”
which is unfini
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Does flight exhilarate the sparrows
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the poems/
we never got to will remain,
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I was talking to this famous female artist
at the reception, (as if I knew anything,)
“If you want to be taken as a serious artist now,
you have to have one long serious eyebrow.”
There was no reaction. So, I said:
“Also, you should kn
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That’s a long time/
to live with the certainty/
of your death
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