Stories tagged poem

Happy Is a Poem

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no need to write it if you/ live it, conscious of the light, the/ shape, the sound, the taste, and shadow.

Enemies Are Taken Care Of?

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A waiter at the café was saying “I’m opening the curtain here behind your back Is that okay?” “Go ahead,” I told him. “It’s all right” “Enemies are taken care of?” “They already got everything,” I said Suddenly both of us were laughi

Nine Months

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Dead Pigs in River

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China, where else? About 2800 of them. A cry went up Somewhere in Berkeley, I believe, Because Berkeley loves almost everything But man. Dead pigs in a river, Floating belly-up. 2800 of them. Who wouldn’t want to Drink from that? W

Silence of the Library

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The robberies and gun violence keep getting closer While my neighbor with the great danes Is mowing her knee-high dog-turd grass With a machine the equivalent of a swamp boat One can only guess where all those Great Dane turds Go flying, but

Assessing Beauty

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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/ some slight exaggeration of one/ or several elements that steals our breath.

Metastasis

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I am eternal/ as long as the power holds

unsettling

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papaya over-ripe displayed on the half with spoons sticking out - ” very ripe, tastes good “ blue crabs cooked with lavender i was sniffing a spoonful when the chef came out

Ice Chips

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Wanting both, you softly moaned, Ice chips, ice chips.

I'm From Electric Peak, MT

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"baby, I'd like to put your face on a hot air balloon and release you up into the sky."

Metastasis

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I am eternal/ as long as the power holds

A Note Left on the Counter

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we cared deeply, and more than you

Hysteria

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But it was not all sex; sex

St. Francis Court

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Where did I go when you drew me from myself so quickly that what followed was erased?

Syracuse Parallel

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Are we wise in other futures?