Stories tagged poetry

Gifts for Bonnie & Charlie

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Jojo dolls & basketballs a mindflex & pick-up sticks Parcheesi and—no, not Parcheesi a supersoaker, a Care Bear

Puppet X, 5

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A man learns too late How small deer laugh It’s true When a man goes mad Ropes come down from the clouds He cannot be sure of anything Anything The way’s uncharmed He thinks someone else’s strange thoughts And it all seems a simple

Back in the Woods: Second Song of Despair

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I wonder what would have become of me, had I remained informed by news

Life In the Underground

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Now they’re excavating tunnels Under Telegraph Avenue In order to house the souls Of some revolutionary poets who Say they suffered for mankind While fighting for standing room only In the Great San Francisco Poetry Wars You wanted to

Warning:

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Warning: The cure for laughter is only temporary

What's the Meaning of Life?

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During a near death experience This man met God and asked “What’s the meaning of life?” “Beats me,” God said

my love for you

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my love for you/ is like the falling snow

The Infamous Kiss

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When the sailor heard the 2nd World War had just ended He grabbed the woman in the white dress Bent her backwards in Times Square And kissed her real good And the photographer Just happened to be there At the right moment But then As

There's Really Only Space For One Here

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i hope that day comes sooner rather than later.

States of Existence

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I’ve fallen beside the sunrise I’ve fallen beside the sunset As well and died I see your face in the shadows under clouds I see your face everywhere And I haven’t even tried But there you are You’re everywhere I look Even when I’m no

Input? Source? Surrender?

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What a mess.

The Four Despairs of Lumpy

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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs

Nathaniel

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sometimes i have to be in the other room just so i can breathe easy away from you.

Stiff Mackerel and the Aging Turkeys

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Some misadventures of band members have caused show postponements And cancellations during the band's 50-year-long career The start of a European tour was postponed in 1998 When one of them fell off a ladder in his home But the band didn’t

A Burst of Color

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There’s a sudden Burst of color Like the dispersal of a ghost In a light wind And now candy wrappers are Scattered all over the heavens It looks like God got lit up By the sky As we flew too c