Stories tagged poem

Listing

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It's so nice to be under something else's power

Left of the Miracle

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Wake me up on payday Don’t throw in the towel

Saturday at the Pre-owned Super Store

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We do not want to be here. Need ensnares/ and pulls us. We put on its tightened face/ which mirrors that each guest will wear

Impetuous Daffodils

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...the daffodils will fling/ their yellow petals, taunting winter

Anticipation

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before your full lips touch mine.

Smiling Lessons

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Wound up taking smiling lessons Six days in a row But they didn’t take All the people in my class They were so fake

I’m Waiting

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All carcinoma/ would be hors d’oeuvres/ for its dark appetite.

One Amber Down, Two to Go

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I am brave, I am sexy, I am strong

Poet Begging on Subway Car

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The subway train pulled up and I shuffled on board. I announced to the whole subway car: “I’m a poet.” And that was all I needed to do. It was like a miracle. Someone got up immediately and gave me her seat. People got in an orderly line and began

Sitting Alone in the Dark

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They told me not to trust you./ Your kind is never faithful:/ Liar! Cheat! Untrustworthy!

The Beauties Abandon You

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When muscle tone and joint strength/ join the absent attributes, you’ll slump/ within your favorite chair and wonder/ what became of you, once fiercely vertical?

The Beauties Abandon You

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The skin will stay but you won’t see it,/ camouflaged by creases, tags, and curious/ deposits of renegade fat and pigment.

Taking A Walk

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13 rooks on a lifeless tree

Those nights.

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Those nights of using crickets chirping as our lullaby as we laid on the soft grass, feeling weightless; our heads vacant of thoughts, but our hearts never more full.

On Enterprise Eve

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After the showers to remove/ the incidental bits of lasered flesh/ and excess inks, each celebrant/ admired the skin of others-