Stories tagged poetry

Svalbard

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there is a vault in the mountains / that in itself contains infinite vaults

Animal Crush

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two pairs of arms and legs

Puppet X, 2

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It’s important to sound Human, I know To get fragile Near your Mother I myself Get glimpses Now & then Once, Eating chicken, staring At the inside Of a muscle Once During a bad thunderstorm While running down the stairs

Growing older, uncomfortably

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Cafés just aren´t cool anymore unless they boast walls of exposed brick, pipes, half a chair nailed to the ceiling, mis-matched furniture back-breakingly uncomfortable.

Aphantasia

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Puppet X, 3

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I look good Together Got these penny wings I could actually fly with It all becomes so clear Sound goes down Sanity returns in an instant The night is bigger... I’d rather stay near the ground I’m not a practicing angel

In Darkened Caves

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There’s the Farmer’s Market In the pouring rain There’s the streets all Filled with pain We used to sit in darkened caves Singing to each other We sat in the darkened halls And chewed upon our brothers We once invented painting By

9/11 -- The Angel Closes the Rain

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We were clinging to hope and innocence Until the second jet struck the Twin Towers That was when real evil twisted our hearts And we were left without prayer, or power Yes, a couple holding hands jumped from the building But when I was the o

Don't Be Difficult

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maybe eventually time / will erase our time together

My Muse Just Blew a Fuse

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It was my sophomore high school English teacher who Managed to inspire me to start writing a little something And I remember, oddly, that she was missing A part of her middle finger Now I realize that maybe she just couldn't give me The whole

Stroke One, Stroke Two, Stroke Three

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On Monday, May 7, 2018, at the age of 67, I had a stroke.

We're Still Here

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the beeps, rhythmic, tell us that you're still with us

Puppet X, 4

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I'm not a practicing angel, ladies and gentlemen Got these penny wings out of boredom I need to know that black and grey place inside an angel where you bow your head, when a puppet forgets himself, when a man learns how smal

Winter Queen

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Love is

Take You Me for a Sponge, My Lord?

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Who does that besides Kafka, Arreola, and Steven Wright?