Stories tagged poem

The Tapeworm of Selfish Mammon Eats All the Good Will in the World

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She caretakes, he takes care

Finland

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When in doubt, blacken the i’s in the dictionary.

Bees in the Eaves

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... Anything to mollify / the confusion. Anything to simplify / the math....

Native to Afghanistan

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Your father's remembrance and memorial would be inappropriate for me to attend. never mind the truth the searing…

And the fucking black dress.

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The fucking black dress; the fucking black dress that obfuscates whether or not you're pretty in the face, that obfuscates the sound of your voice, that obfuscates the color of your hair, your eyez, your skin,

Possum

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It’s a bizarre drinking game called Possum. The kids love it. They drink until they’re falling out of trees at botanic gardens around New Zealand. And the gardeners find them the morning after and they hate it because it reminds them of their

Honey Bee

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But only to watch the boys squelched over and over — only to suffer the longing of a life I will never live with them while in the nunnery of honey.

...is closed

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… is closed Now Drake Hughes was a swell welcoming manAnd Ann, his wife, had Freudian issuesOne day by the well with knife and a planAnn, sweet-sweet Ann, became sweet widow Hughes.Now Drake was a fake, but a welcoming guyHis…

Outside

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a cop sits on the hood of his car enters traffic tickets into his gadget talks into his cellphone codes that mean something to someone

The Upstart, Christopher Columbus

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the honey sun

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she looked younger than most 85-year-olds / was well aware of this / cursed god for tricking her into thinking / she was still too young to die

from Subjunctives of a Disembodied Poetic

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their moments chock-full of the doing

70-Year-Old Virgin Says She’s Finally Ready for Love

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70-year-old virgin says she’s finally ready for love. What a heart breaker! Oh, Lord! Meanwhile, elsewhere in the news, Girl Scouts are under scrutiny from Catholic bishops. I’ll bet! Also, this just in: 'Butt dialing' may be to blame for 38% of

Going Along for the Ride

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You could hear her coming from a long way off like she kept trying to catch her breath, like she was getting the fun rattled out of her bones. But it was laughter, always laughter that kept on filling up her belly from the inside and she was

Shorty

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dishonest words poured / from her cherry mouth /she clung to me / like she was my other nut / she licked the / salt from neck / held my shaved head / in between her small pink hands