Stories tagged poem

Ghosts of a Polish Ghetto

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I was born fifteen years too late to save them; Granddaddy was born fifteen years too soon.

Haikup

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Unfortunately poets are not, apparently, worth their weight in gold. I guess because the price of gold keeps going up, is all I can figure. Otherwise…

Tonight

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Let's fuck like 20-year-olds, darlingwrap ourselves around each otherand fuck our way to the starsLet's cross that line between you and meand the stuff people pay to seeI know pleasure and it is thisall over me, you, covering,…

Linear A

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let’s press our words into the clay/ in language so completely dead/ we have to re-imagine it.

A Conversation on an Empty Balcony

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I go with the wind, like the smoke of this Marlboro red as it dances among the palm trees.

Carpe Diem

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It's true push often comes to shove

Pseudepigraphy

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“Please do not stand, sit, climb, or sharpie on students,”

First Rain of the New Year

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Compartments trickle together/ in light diffuse and unreliable./ Fortify yourself against the day.

#2 Feeding Fire (Poetry)

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It is like truth on the battle field. Muted

Nothing Like the Present

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And for his birthday maybe a helium balloon Tied to the big toe of his lead foot Wait a minute I’m in a ditch in heaven Back up, back up Crap. I’m stuck Call a tow truck

New Questions of Travel

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Watching water fall in the longest waterfall/ becomes immediately tedious

Homecoming 1944

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He looked to his mother for assurance

OBGYN Haiku

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/ Don't make eye contact.

The Horror

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It doesn’t shuffle, wrapped in cotton,/ hungering for love and tana leaves.

The Sworn Virgins of Albania

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Among the Sworn Virgins of Albania She must have lived far too long I could not pry her legs apart Even with a thong