Stories tagged poem

Flight of Fancy

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Flitting from infancy to adolescence Growing into adulthood with grace and poise Flirting with the opposite sex, same sex, all sex Learning the seductive dance of the plumed siren The woman child sees only one way to survive. …

Also, you should know you can’t get rich on poetry

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Too many writing students out there And not enough living rooms of experience Closets full of desire Bursting, wanting to get out And set themselves on fire Too many imitators of literature And not enough tired of the utter drudgery Of sla

And her child

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The mother was happy, though. She was happy because she could make him some soup and then she could feed it to him in bed.

Band Names For Sale. Inquire Within

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Footfalls on the Waves

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I am alone with my thoughts, alone in my trek, alone in my life. But there is another figure who walks another beach Gazing in my direction from a thousand miles away

Worker Reprimanded For Flatulence

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An employee at the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore office has been formally reprimanded for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee," specifically for disrupting co-workers "by passing gas and releasing an unpleasant odor." According to the

Still Pretty

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Woman on a date at Denny’s Friday night With her 8-year-old son No ring, vacant stare Still pretty

The Hero in Heart of Darkness

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Remember the equatorial heat, the flies,/ the lurking hum and scream of jungle,/ the squalor? Remember the functionary.

End of the Cloud

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Somewhere between the bleating of sheep And the laying of eggs Comes the licking of frosting And the eating of the cake We’re not young enough To know everything anymore And you may think there’s no rush But I know this There’s a limit t

Turbidity

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Where seldom is heard an encouraging word

Pet Chicken Alerts Wisconsin Couple To Blaze

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A Wisconsin couple says fire clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home. The couple's pet chicken woke them at about 6:15 a.m. Thursday. He says the smoke alarms didn't go off when the fire started in the attic of their attached g

A Definitive Saga Falls Upon Deaf Ears

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I can only hear it when I strain my ears,

No Questions Asked

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No questions asked

Nights Underground

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we drank all the beer in the world, then we made the lights low and lower, and lower somehow more than that everything got fuzzy and sidelong vivid everytime we threw a dart it hit nowhere near a target but, we weren't really trying anyway we were just kids who'd…

Admonition

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Let routine/ propel you through/ the day after/ the day before.