Stories tagged poetry

A Straight-Edge Girl Recants

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it’s alright to get fucked up gobsmacked be an escape artist

In Time,

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IN TIME, we will walk on gravel paths studded with gemstones.

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING

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LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHINGIf you think by your death you have left me alone, to pine, to regret, to watch cable tv, you're wrong.At bedtime I wear a new black lace gown,and arrange myself to advantageon sheets finer than any we shared.I've left the…

Consecration

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While you sleep, I dip my fingers in your font.

I Could Feel the Ground Move

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They say, "I swear I could feel the ground move when ______."

No Electricity

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I awoke mid-dreamAt that point between light and dark,East and west, young and oldThat no one knows or remembers.There was no electricity,No electric lights, no humming machinery.Only the sights and sounds of creationSpectacular in their simplicity.

Hot Tuna – Self-titled

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Outside

Doubting Thomas (poem)

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Do not go raging into that bleak night, Old age should know frustration's not the way; Float, float when all about you's losing light.

The Hand Strikes Twelve

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The rum and Coke Zero curved my mustache on each end, gave me something to twiddle.

Send

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Send me a secret story in a song just for me

Wool On The Bluestem

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Remembrance of their wool trousers still lingers on the bluestem. I walk their streets at night to watch the curtains for wind.

The Dock

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Row, Caps of white, A salted escape beneath reflected light. Brother, remember those old lies? I’m off to sea to make those things right, now.

drinking buddies

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Tonight, Bukowski and I drink together.

Ephemeral Summer

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the summer sky's leather coat emblazoned with the shimmer of galaxies, in testament to the true size of life so big it's no-life

Intro to Creative Writing, Rm 218

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Every semester someone mistakes the black and white portrait of Pablo Neruda for Alfred Hitchcock. And every semester, there's a student who sighs and rolls his eyes when the discussion is stalled by those who…