Stories tagged poetry

The City's Not For You

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You left your quiet life for a home in the city.

One Heart

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That blue is not a colour but a territory of sight.

Such Loneliness is Unbearable

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forgotten words/ washed away in linen’s laundry.

Daily Living

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When we are given eternity, as a night is eternal

The World Passing By On a Double-Decker Tourist Bus in NYC

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They’ve got the tourists On the top deck of the bus Wrapped up in large yellow Plastic garbage bags Riding through the City in the rain The yellow bags flapping in the wind Yelling in the numerous languages At the top of the world The to

Weidinger

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ghosts keeping watch to ensure no changes; their favoured tables safeguarded with a Reserviert card to ward off the living.

Make Not Thy Head a Grave

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the emergence of the Beatles and the Vietnam War sad human electricity no buzz of any wheel

But It Is Difficult

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The day doesn’t budge in its enormity.

On the Mountain

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To forget how it is to travel or to get there.

ROMANCE

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In the neon light and barroom shadows,

Neural Tones

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--"Look at us," she murmurs. "Tristan and Isolde without the adultery." --"Well, you can't have everything." --"No? I heard otherwise."

Executing the Trade

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Prospero's in his cell and I'm in mine. He drowns his books, I'm drowning in mine. He exercises his power–I'm powerless to exercise.

The Little Things (three versions)

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It's the little things that trip us up: a small hole in a level field, an innocuous root in a well-trod path, a disinclined sidewalk...

Self Inventory

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Life, like a kite string, is slipping out of your hands

October Days

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The first days of October are ordinary in the way that milk just hours away from spoiling is ordinary milk. You can baptise your cornflakes with it, but part of you knows the whole thing is just shy of almost right.