Stories tagged poem

Life with Fish

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Then someone baits a hook for you

Taking Off the Knives

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The table in me will no longer / support the fruit

After the Shark

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each to his / secret dream of the thing

When Veronica Lake Died Today

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When Veronica Lake died today of hepatitis, / he didn't blink an eye

Pruning

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In the orchard below the mountain / rain was falling

Magritte

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I pick Magritte up from the bottom of a star

The Transportation of Hens

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Sixteen hundred hens / suffocated / during the collection

In Search of Dawn

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the air is a fierce tangerine tonight

Playing for Keeps

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I woke like an animal / breeding thoughts like flies

My Brother Outside a Cantina at Night, Mexico

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in his thin, swanky black leather jacket out on the town at night in Mexico with his girlfriend

The Learning Curve

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There’s always something negative to say

Four

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With babiesand toysand dishesstrewn aboutmy lonelylandscapethe best helphe could offerwas to stayout of my wayuntil dinnerwas served, to whichbeing sufficientlytender, I couldcall him.And nowawakening,swimmingthrough themercuryof my discoverieshowling, weepingI scrambleto…

Universal Theory #1: The 3-Step Secret to a Good Life

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1. Think up problems that don’t exist 2. Realize, suddenly, that they don’t exist 3. Elation

I didn’t know that I was lost

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I didn't know that I was lost.In intimate rooms, filled with memory laden wallson floors stained with hunger and desire I felt empty yet complete. On familiar streets, chasing adulation giving my all, being one with all I touched I felt hollow yet…

Peom, Peom

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Like a dose of split pea soup your insults sour the women who'd clustered around you to praise the lecture you'd just delivered on the ecology of marshland in the Mekong River delta. Flattery disgusts you. Their sleek and expensive middle-class facades shine like…