Stories tagged poetry

Dusting

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Realizing life's absurdity via a domestic chore.

Give Tongue

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"Penning a slight of tongue well versed or worse, a salacious lie..."

X-Day

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Let us now proclaim a new holiday for ex’s called X-Day Let’s throw out weddings and first kisses and that old haunted V-Day (Virginity Day) X-Day will soon take over as the major holiday Tell the boss you’ll be taking off

Shedding the Skin of Past Lives

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I bow my head and shed the antlers of past lives I no longer butt heads with the universe but I miss my curse and can’t do worse I throw myself in reverse and rehearse the early scenes of science and my full meat diet that sent

Skyline Driver

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watchin' the cat toy with the mouse/ as I felt for real what all those young boys/ wanted all those years

Lobster's Alive

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Oh, no! the lobster’s still alive staring out at us from the freezer at the fish shop sitting on top of the other dead fish and ice its large claws taped shut with orange rubber bands one eye stalk moving occasionally wonde

Balm (excerpt)

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my second language / to silence / plainsong of / the breast

Venus Envy

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Our illustrious President no piker himself has revealed making 5.5 mil this past year while the rest of us went bust He stated he expects to see men on Mars in his lifetime Men on Mars? What’s next, women on Venus? And now I m

Lines Written Under the Influence

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the rhythm of bone and soup and wind

Letter to Neruda

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You have been my woman’s lover now for seven years, ever since your two souls met at La Isla Negra.

Suite Loss

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You came, lust in dust, apple of my expectations

Just Like I Read the News

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two died that year / well, you know . . . . / baby you can drive my hearse / it couldn't get much worse

Bright Red

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They shoveled coal into the furnace of the city so the ghosts would be warm for their haunting.

Ars Poetica

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so I let go the uncertainty

Dear Earth, On the Occasion of Your 40th Earth Day Birthday

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Everyone is tromping around in work boots like an army of happy gardeners. The park is smiling from all this attention, from the sound of kids who think work is play. It's not even sunny but we don't mind. I know you don't. Grey days are just as good. They've…