Stories tagged poetry

Thrones & Lashes

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And this lie exactly is what failing you throw out to calibrate your bearings by

Girl on the Road

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She dithered in the back seat on the way to her funeral.

Layne Staley

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I talked to a kid who claimed he'd been a soldier, and roadie for Alice In Chains

inven(s)tory

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0. or, if or once1. wild asters2. atoms, or something like atoms3. white meets white meets white4. vertebral c …

The Favorite

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She wasn't anybody's, just one of those left-behinds that came with the house.

I Hate You

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go ahead stick one more morsel into that piehole

Reaper Drone

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The extortion belief in himself has turned into a noose he tells his neck would do well tightening.

NOLA's Nightcap

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I need to be commended, despite the wine glass that threw itself at your sister's head of rollers. Imagine a pear in the deli meat aisle ripening behind glass...

A lie that will not lay down

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I knew the course and had as long as I remembered the name on this post, but I couldn't clue the knot, the part of me I was ‘minded of on reflection. Yes there was always somewhere over there but I knew only the ground under my feet and then that it…

The Favorite

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She wasn't anybody's, just one of those left-behinds that came with the house.

THE OLYMPIC COULDRON.

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drive my car around the block and pray to the lord jesus christ. i sometimes wish id never been born and was tom daley.

The Family Tradition

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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…

Bus Stop

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A good thing the bus is latea man needs time to thinkPolice cars race bysirens silence his inner voiceThe bus is nowhere in sightyellow cabs drop and pick up customersThe smell of tar and urinemixes with the steam from manholesA young woman wearing headphonesbumps and…

Bloodbox

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You lie seeming less obvious than led by false hopes that never manage to overcome your hurts.

landlocked

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it's like choking in Juneorchards and snowfall: I want to speakof your clavicles, how sharp and juttedthey seem at skin, orspeak to them and ask if or if once…