Stories tagged poetry

Summer

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behind the hua pala you parted her skinny legs like reeds everything the good friction of pebbles over sand a quivering bow on the synthetic strings of a stratus violin

deflated

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writing because it's the only drug i havesick on sadnessas the weight of the moment crumbling around me comes down some sweet second inspires…

Eddie Says

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At night they floated through my dreams / like paper dolls, whole flocks of them, / in synchronous motion, hatless / even in winter, lest they muss their hair.

The Simplicity Being Enough

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You read my poems, Not because you like them, But just to find yourself, Mentioned in them.

God Sheds His Gravy On Thee

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We are the sum total of our bad credit our sexual partners and our drink tabs

Why Dogs are Men and Cats are Women

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Dogs will hump anything. Cats do not hump.

Maps

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Our first maps are just abstract things: we center what we know while nether regions fall off edges, or countries of imagination, blown out of all proportion, squat invitingly unlimned, cramped in blank corners populated with cities of monsters or mothers. …

The Ballad of Phineas, Fair Nance and The Beej

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So off to the Nacimiento woods after Arizona's homemade pizza flat That's more intoxicating than a brew And lisnin' to Strangefellow's ten fingers magically fly on his Strat With his Psyche-delicate view

The situationist(s) à la crème.

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Cut 4 cm-thick strips from suburban bouncer's deltoidsPlace 2 vegetarian piranhas in the oven......Preheat with a cup of wonderful love affairsCombine interactive art in crowd control operationsAnd persistent genital arousal disorder in a saucepanWhisk together survival…

Lenin's Paintings

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I was going through Lenin's jewelry and his paintings with a team of experts. I got the idea that I was hired to verify his paintings, although I didn't know he painted.

Getting Back to Zero

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If the train moves slow and your head is full of bloodyou can look downward andsee where you came from. If your eyes have swollen and seem ready to pop forth from your skull, you can alwaysstop seeing and feel…

9 PLAIN SMALL,or,Look Ma, I'm Wearing An Ass's Head On a Very High Horse

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"You know I don't listen/and you know that I don't care/but every day you'll find me there."--Todd Rundgren 1.The Moon at Sunset My anger's tipped likea candle dripping down my neck. My lovelies with a smile thatis nothing but lips.My anger is agreat…

For Later

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. . . lightening for their jars

Antique Mannequin

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A perfect woman?

Chopsticks Turbulence [!]

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Abundant cream has coated my world.