Stories tagged poetry

Cloudstopper (poem)

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She was Clementine Cropper and didn't you know She's the one you remember when there's talk of the blow.

Like Picasso

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lying back on inviolable sheets, your breasts spread apart like a child’s open hands you’d look up at me and smile

Loco Rd

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Tattooing over your confusion by assuming you decorating the most painful acres of your flesh impresses anyone who has invested just as much money in the effort.

a garbage bag for a shroud

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it didn't move, blinked in bird-delirium when i spoke. one eye closed, then the other...

Thesaurus of Conjunctions

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nor would we want to

Lion's Breath

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Lyrics, rap, spoken word, poetryActivating this and thatCorner of my mind, flippingSwitches, turning onLights, opening windowsPushing stale air from a parking garage.An intimation, or implicationOf fresh air comingBehind, chasing oldDead things ahead of it.The way the…

Thesaurus of Conjunctions

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nor would we want to

Ode to Our Comms System

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Not a lovely view As lovely as it is

Dust Scars

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A gurgle of sugar on bark-splotch or blips. A mess: blueprints, radar, or wrench. Lips swell neon blood. So much spit, the lunar tremors. Manipulated, blur flutter flicks. To lungs: choke on scraps of metal, lumber, nuclear. Stir the embers. She's a bone bath for…

The words you are known by: To Mitt Romney on the eve of his national convention, a cento

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I'll tell you what, Rick, ten-thousand bucks? [But] let Detroit go bankrupt. I'm running for office for Pete's sake,

That Beyonce Move

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One hand on my heart, one over my lips, "Talk to me now," she whispered. Joined at the hips. I did and I did--in warm sweetness we slid. I said some things I don't know what, succumbing to that goose-pimpled jack-hammering butt. And I want to laugh but oh no, no, no,…

It'll Be Okay/revised version

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It's not that there's nothing new, it's all new. That blue color is not the one you remember, but the one you are experiencing, and at the same time, you bring everything you are, crushing into dust, with you. Green…

A Guitar Worth $50

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If there was a market for my skin

A Paris Stop

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Outside a cafe in Paris a discarded bicycle leans against a street lamp. Years ago a man cycling home from work stopped for a coffee and there, by chance, met the love of his life.Under gray skies, the awning dripped a single wet chill down my collar. We had…

Paddy On Crack

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He lies like a dead deer across the hood of his bed.