Stories tagged poetry

The Dilemma

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Scribble something basic with traces of spectacular,pen every pint of pain spilled during the massacrewhittle the convoluted down to the vernacularboiled the whole story, now you got everybody crackin' upnow step back from the business like, “man, that's wack as…

Unfathomable Mammals

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Supernatural, you say dripping, as you take my hand in yours squeeze down for dear life, boring your fingernails into my palm,

Staying

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Nice knowing you. Have a nice day.

House Rabbit

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I would be proud to be your house rabbit. I make this case: I will listen flop-eared close to your every concern and exhultation. If I doze off nudge me. I wake quickly.

Tom's Final Plan

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He isn’t getting any younger and Jerry isn’t getting any slower.

Landscape in Graphite on Paper, 3x3x3

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still his words breathe

Tina

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i hear 'history' when I ask why you're here. you study it, teach it or suffer it, i assumebut my guess is as good as yours.you're called 'tina' and youreyes sparkle like freshly lickedskin. haven't seen you in a while.a white glimmer in my handreminds me, though. i…

Ego

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He said that clouds were most problematic, but the human form was easy to recreate. The nudes invited his sketch; the sketch invited his brush.

Pet Apocalypses

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Will there be time to sacrifice a virgin Or a Sony to turn on a tumbling shore?

On Being Born May 19th

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Let’s get out the punch bowl, call up friends, and party!

Courtroom (Philip Guston)

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They’ve thrown the painter in the trash upside down with his red pajamas and feet sticking up in the air, with his shoes on. The large red hand of judgement pointing at him, that gives us direction and law and shame, gives us a large red headache. Whi

you see?

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The river is there inside, the liquid living inside like light, moving rapidly over unknown rocks, approaching, and intimate. As if the source of all is inside me. Someone, anyone, says the word “available” from 3 tables away, as if it’s the only word o

The Grinder

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"For several days thinking they had found a dead man’s boot beside the highway..."

Subject Matter

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for the beautiful madness of survival

Chagall Sketches

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Right now the only escape is flickering candlelight where ugly exigencies dance with marvelous colors behind heavy-lidded eyes