Stories tagged poem

Shadow banking hits $67 trillion globally

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Bank with Shadow Savings and Loan. They’re right down this block, somewhere.

Orpheus and Eurydice

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This is hell amongst the bloom and grow. Spring's warmth is cruel, a feast of unrestraint...

Chupacabra Blues

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I'm afraid my chupacabra has AIDS

My Darling Dead Ones

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Do you remember?

Urban Legending is Lonely Work

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A Chupacabra for Thanksgiving

In the Afterlife Either

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They don’t play songs in the afterlife either Plus you get free removal of your old sex

Dog Crouch

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Deep in an emotional ditch Ah yes, like that familiar Dog Crouch We all know so well

Texas Route 29

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Texas Route 29 is not a straight line.It traces the perimeter of our own Georgetowncompelled west kicking off shit-stained bootsgreeted by green and yeller' John Deereignored by motley cattle, heads bowed weighed low with marrow-filled horns.A Jack Nicklaus golf course…

Church Tower Mess

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An enormous flock of maybe mainly papal carrier pigeons Have left an enormous mess behind Inside the tower of a church in Sweden Approximately 2 tons of pigeon poop From as far back as the era of Chaucer Are causing the old tower to sway And

The wheel turning inside out

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A world in which we hurry up and wait, ...

Sunday Morning Series- 3: Theo Logic

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Observe the withered/ head atop the pole.

The Men's Booze, Bull and Book Club

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Got invited to speak to The Men’s Precision Booze, Bull and Book Club As opposed to the Women’s Auxiliary Booze, Book and Bitch Club Which never invites men to speak Because basically “Men Don’t Speak” And no one reads their books Because t

Music in Berkeley

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There I saw a woman with dyed long red hair Dressed all in furs and a short tight skirt Way too young for her age And she was banging a tampon on her leg At the performance of Ramblin Jack Eliot And no one got up to throw red wine on her Ful

Fear in a Handful of Dust

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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/ and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./ I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./ I fear a death by taxes.

Wandering Kisses

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Your wandering kisses entered my soul Then my flesh, then my holes You filled them all Like a Norwegian hall Like a Swedish sailor Drunk with ale You fell inside me And you’re falling still It was a thrill I can’t sit still I got a chi