Stories tagged poem

There Are Over 200 Religions In the World

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I am the man who was fired from a thousand jobs I was the model you saw pointing at the gleaming red Maserati At the Miami Art Fair, as if you did not already see it I was the girl named Calorie in that infamous diet commercial I was the boy named

The Art of the Ruin

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The ghosts run before/ attacking horsemen. A heart/ is ruptured by a spear.

Karma Wash, Hog Wash and Swill

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The beer on the shore is Lapping at the foam of memory And I can’t sit still Until I take my pill Karma Wash, Hog Wash and Swill I went to the top of the heap On the bottom of the Hill I saw a bum’s sign that read: “Will eat dog food f

Moon Over L.A.

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The moon begins to rise over L.A. while the roaches try to crawl up the sides of the mountains surrounding the L.A. Basin. While fires rage in the forests of the night, here comes the moon over the horizon, big and haunted, pock-marked and coo

The Cure for Cancer

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Thus, more people can drown// and leave their bones

A Quantum of Disappointment

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Reality winks at us then scampers off

Karma Control

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I came into the café and there sat a plump man with a huge beer belly and pencil-thin black moustache, drinking from a large paper coffee cup with the name “Butch” written on it, by the Barista. He had just discovered that his karma was out of control

Bring Down the Babies

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Morning. Quiet as church.

Chocolate Diamonds

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with facets

Live a Little Again, With Me

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Soon you too will lie down with the sleep of rain, grown old by having lived through your youth, that is all. Lying from the side of your mouth so often that you take up lying on your side, to try getting an eyeful of the often slandered truth rig

Antediluvian

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When the water came crashing

Mirror, Mirror

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before the baby fat stayed// and the hair, unnaturally/ black and dry, thinned

Beware the Myth of Sin Bag

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The moon god was named Sin in Mesopotamia. Monuments to Sin have been unearthed nearly everywhere now. There are some located right inside your brain, it is said, and to the left of your groin. If your are in pain, grab your Sin. Some will cla

Rejection Isn’t Always Everything It’s Racked Up To Be

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I was so messed up when you left me, and I admit I went around searching the faces of the crowd for the man who filled your womb.

I Can’t Wait To Develop Patience, But

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And they let the angels out at twilight, the dark twins of bats, and their troubled undersides. Never were the bats so disturbed. Never until now has true evil been so see-through, and clear.