Stories tagged poem

Geo. Washington, or the Mona Lisa

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Tell me. George Washington and the Mona Lisa. Brother and sister? Distantly related? Or the same person? Which is it? Same huge forehead, same eyebrows. That manly, knowing smile. What did they know that we don’t?

It's Good

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It’s good to get fucked in the rain. It’s good to get fucked in the back seat of a power boat on a river in the hot summer air with the mosquitos sucking the life out of you. It’s good to get fucked with your bare back rubbing up against the rough bar

In the Beginning...

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In the beginning there was salt. God licked the salt and said it was Good. Then there was light. And then chocolate.

A political parable

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One of these days we aren’t going to believe whatever they tell us.

My Grandmother Becomes A Young Widow

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I want her life to pass in a world without meridian

Mountains

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Eretorua

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Eretorua –somewhere in the land of the Māori

Land's End

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Wearing Land’s End clothes at life’s end Driving around in circles in your Codgermobile with 3 good hubcaps. Who wouldn’t want to steal that?

Stop Sign

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Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead

The Fat Man's Third Wife

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They say it was like an elephant married to a dove. Imagine, me, a dove! Ridículo!

Spices

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In the tang of winter warm and summer cool,

A Journey of Seven Thousand Miles

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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet

The Ice Cream Mantra

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Chant the ice cream mantra. Prance the do dah day ballet. Trot the t-bone tango two-step. Dance the livelong day away.

Oh, Clyde. I must be your Bonnie.

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This is the best kind of crime scene. Spattered like gore from gunshots, I'm left covered in trace evidence.

Star child

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The radiation of shadows It sits in the dwindling sun Speckled with frosted memories Treating the night like a rented car