Stories tagged poetry

Junk Pulse

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Me included...

The Night Before the Last Day of Summer

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Tonight is our last night to dream.

Fear Us, Oh Yes.

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Start now. Make lists. Call long-lost friends. Say what needs saying. Raise hell.

The Hazards of Language

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Funny, how a preoccupation with words can make you fret, can make you fumble.

Poem in Two Photographs

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someone must be walking the far end of the pond

Shrinkage

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Its fingers stretch

Startle Reflex

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I’m decades in and it hasn’t gone away. In all other respects, I am normal. Life is hard, but I’m not complaining. The thing is, I am in a constant state of falling.

Kimchi Hatchet

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“You’re not Jesus"

Hip-Hop Elephants of the Golden Palace

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Hello floaty word man / suspended in smoke / chortling coughing with collapsing colon / spraying sounds into the day / making it night and ending the line

Villon, Stop Following Me Around!

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Villon, get the hell outta here!

Rupees

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Days like this I operate this city on muscle memory.

a pity

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The one that I love - doesn't love me.

All there is

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You need buttered broths and to copy old writings by hand by very poor light.

Dithyrambic

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Any fans of First Shot who missed Chapt. 53, it's here: http://fictionaut.com/groups/novel-excerpts

Receding Haiku

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love weaves a perforated web between the spikes of longing