Stories tagged poem

Geek Love

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We’ve clicked/ and tapped ‘til dawn/ and our exhaustion meet,

The Hand Strikes Twelve

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The rum and Coke Zero curved my mustache on each end, gave me something to twiddle.

I Love You Like

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I love you like a high speed DeSoto rattling across the Kerouacian plains outside Denver

Wool On The Bluestem

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Remembrance of their wool trousers still lingers on the bluestem. I walk their streets at night to watch the curtains for wind.

Present Co. Excluded

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Noticed a woman eying my coffee holder with 3 full caffe lattes in it. “I’m cutting back,” I said, without missing a beat.

The Dock

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Row, Caps of white, A salted escape beneath reflected light. Brother, remember those old lies? I’m off to sea to make those things right, now.

Why Is This Woman Smiling?

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Because someone whispered Mona Lisa in her ear.

Poem for Birthday

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Nonetheless, the undiscovered territory/ shrinks ahead of you./ Opportunities for Delphic utterance/ disappear behind you.

Fast Food (with side of religion)

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Man wolfing banana in his car on University Place Chinese girl walks by and his head follows her all the way until his head is twisted 180 degrees

In December, 1998, we dropped more bombs on Iraq

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This is between the two wars, so it surprises you when TV screens light up with this in the hotel breakfast room. You are in Delhi, you were supposed to fly home last night but fog canceled everything.

Clarinet

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It’s beautiful to look at and to hold/ though true musicians would be appalled/ by the black plastic

The First Time. Maybe Our Second or Third

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She sat me down naked on a kitchen chair and fucked me in the dining room, hovering over me, then sitting down on top of me I was upstanding It was outstanding, raw, and exciting No children or adults around, or dogs, cats or birds, no goldf

Acclimation

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Before I grew used to it I would wake to the sound of the Amtrak whistle echoing down along the tracks behind our trailer park and wonder who was hurtling where through the dark night and across this wide Illinois prairie

The Low-Hanging Fruit

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We are the low-hanging fruit Not the 99%

The beautiful young girls from high school

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