Stories tagged poetry

Black Squirrel Poem

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disorderly black squirrels / inhabit upper Michigan

Bone Density

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Madame Fauve, / with a twisted braid, is dancing.

liar

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i'd like to tell you that things have gotten better-that i've gotten better...but that would be a lie.... i guess i haven't been myself lately.

J.D. Salinger's Toilet Put Up For Auction

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Everybody will be talking about it on campuses across the country “Hey! You’ll never guess who’s toilet I bought. I’m not shitting you!”

I Scream

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she peeled back the white wrapper from around her ice cream sandwich slowly, methodically

Question for the Artist

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When painting the field, how did you learn yellow lines superseded blue, that the farthest oak is chalk...

Why Is This Woman Smiling?

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I was at the doctor’s office They had a poster of the Mona Lisa and the caption underneath it read: “Why is this woman smiling?” Well, it wasn’t because she was over 50 and had yearly mammograms It was because she was 20 something

Lab Work

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Desire stirred into the liquid reveals Cold ice smoking colder, As you pipet these channels of my heart.

Voice of the Past

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You are about to experience a voice from the past. Here we go ... jet back to about 1964. I remember you with the same beard (just a different color!) and slightly longer hair. I remember drinking lots of beer and wine in your basement with Shel

Chicken Over the Ocean

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take me into your arms, God I’m a duck I used to be a seaweed what went wrong

eve

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she lays there wrapped in his baseball sheets

Pharaoh ... Pharaoh

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I woke up on my back with my face in the sunlight and thought, I guess this must be heaven, it was so bright out. Except for the buzzing of the insects. They will always bring you back to earth.

one for the runners

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it always takes too long to figure it out

Roof of the World

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She ripped the roof of your mind off and you began writing like Dylan Thomas in the wind like Hemingway in Paris Bukowski on booze like Vladimir Nobokov on girls You began seeing the folds in the world like Picasso th

Purgatory

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her finger traces knee scab perimeters