Stories tagged poetry

Speaking to the Dead

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I didn't hear your last words or see your lasteyes. I didn't reach you in time, so I sat by your corpse,silently saying goodbye. I am in that process,not sour, not sweet, that yoked speaking which can't(because the heart won't let it) utter its whisperedlast word, but…

Samantha’s Note to Her Husband

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By February, I had decided, That you'd tear out my throat every morning if it meant your favorite song would play from my neck.

Lessons from a Pine

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I awake one morning to find that still, the leaves continue to fall.

Please Do Not Blame Me

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I was disappointed with love, and like everyone else, stammered out of love into a place horrified with meaning.

Poet

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Language is a human presence ....

Terror Management Theory: The Joy Knee

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I could reach out and grab this world by the p...

Shaken not stirred

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The warmth of the sun

Abra Cadaver

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The body is an endless safari filled with rhino sightings and encounters with antelope.

Climate Change

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Every year I have a birthday, and every year another of my friends succumbs to cancer or suicide. That's a shitty gift. That is devoutly not to be wished.

The Dark

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Where is the one who was brave?

Everything becomes serious...

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but difficult like uncertainty

Three Short Pieces

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#spotify / Elevators / Sky Burial Monologue

Now It Is Done

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How have we let our lives pass

Fear

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Fear I’ll be stuck here without a ladder

The Point

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If you're not any more interesting sloshed / than you are sober / then what's the point?