Stories tagged poetry

Poetry: Bizarro

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I think theorems and hypotheses but all that comes out is punching and smashing frustrated hate flows where I'd prefer to know love.

Abletofly: New Wonder Drugs and Their Prohibitions

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With Abletofly you will be able to fly and the feeling will be overwhelming! A few warnings and precautions: Don’t try to drive a car if you experience an erection lasting more than eight hours. Stay at work. Work overtime. Don’t try to

Farming, A Handbook (for Wendell Berry)

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out here the land/speaks in Quaker silence

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The charcoaled stillness of the dark grows thick, but there are no words for this — only shadows and the one light as cold reminders to the room that the black window forgives the overturned table its why and how for mocking the chair. There must have been…

The Roses Ask For You

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The roses ask for you when I smell them They seem to remember your touch more than others. They can’t bear it when you’re gone and wonder when you’ll be returning I am beginning to do the same I no longer go outdoors to be with them

Sunday Mourning

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She wears black on Sundays

Because of Thich Nhat Hanh

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He sat in the lotus positionEyes closed in the grassat the edge of the lakethe water was calm and onlythe sound of a distant oarcould be heard knocking on the side of a wooden boat He breathed in and knewthat he was breathing inHe breathed out and knewthat he was…

White Summer Dress

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Light youth that barely touches the ground

Skinny in her Black Dress

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black hair/ (damp) around her ears Keys on the table Drinking coffee from a glass

Leda and the Swan: Paul Gauguin

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Leda looks back over her shoulder at us as the swan grips her from behind while at the same time nipping at the nape of her neck. She's a freckled child and a little frightened. There's a dark smudge beneath her eye where the shadow runs. The swan

Puppet X, 1

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I know you, ladies and gentlemen We see the near future through you Your factual face as you sit indoors Youthless In your ordinary chair

Helga Suite

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the nails of God

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 and then

Inward Train

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And beauty I had seen before, but for death this spoke so hopefully. A passing candle in the night till fleeting light did fade out black.

traffic incident

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and i start screaming. i check the damage in my rearview mirror but there's nothing.