Stories tagged poetry

The Beautiful Mercedes

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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.

Walking Coma / Resurrection Happens

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It’s possible to forgive the past its trespasses / stop seeing the future as a threat, reimagine / the present as a goal.

We Collect Skulls

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all about the American dream

Waking to a Dream of Thunderstorm, I Write to a Poet a Long Time Dead

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His is the silence of last words

Shock Theater

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One skeleton in an acid pit

How To Write a Poem

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an EZ How to Guide in 50 simple steps

Repetition Interrupted

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I called bullshit on it all and just stopped.

Splitting

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Crunching gravel beneath my feet, the sound of approaching death.

Sink, Sunk

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the moon's got it out for the far-sighted punkish usuper supping on the upswing of a downward slope

From a Quarter-Life Son

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Mid-life dads

Facing the Music

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The spirit bottles line the top of the bar

803 Monroe

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while upstairs pretty ladies on/ a calendar lounged without a/ drop of sweat

Deep

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Turn on the ocean, And I will wrap you,

Geminids 12.13.09

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too many Jameson's

Blind Observer.

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I sat there, observing the city people. Frowns upon all our faces. The rain moistened my heart and journal. A blind family; a trio. They used their wands to lead the way.Their faces read joy but, most importantly, satisfaction.My envy filled the damp page.