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The following day, I was so nervous that I decided to have a drink to keep a lid on my nerves. It wasn't even noon yet. They say that's when you know it's getting bad, and that drinking has become a problem. But I hadn't gone out with anyone in over fi
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He sat on a leather couch in the nude, blew smoke rings shaped like wild animals and picked verses out of the thick air.
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. . was the earliest born of the not-so-great Pedantic Poets . .
. . beleaguered by family financial crises that continued to the beginning of his life, he suffered periods of deep elation . .
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A half-dozen times, he had rebuffed the man’s request to read for him, until the poet accepted that Hugh was no soft touch, no touch at all.
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"...Whatever happened to Perry
Farrell, anyway?..."
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Some Gulf grunts bled
burgundy; others, cherry
red.
It's not the viscosity,
but a certainty ...
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a happy bath
time bubble that boils
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Once metal is rotting, there is residue.
Yes that is the color.
Caput Mortum.
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Wrinkling his brow, You’re nearly a woman now, he said. Major in science or math. Write poetry in your spare time.
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The weather is chilly here in discomfort The goose bumps raise their black flags I've never peered through domes of eternal bliss Those sleek enough, slide past me I seek the empty company in brown plastic bags, With only a few holes and a branded…
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If ever I read a poem aloud
It will not be from a podium’s shelter
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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