Stories tagged poetry

Oh, Clyde. I must be your Bonnie.

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This is the best kind of crime scene. Spattered like gore from gunshots, I'm left covered in trace evidence.

Star child

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The radiation of shadows It sits in the dwindling sun Speckled with frosted memories Treating the night like a rented car

Morphine

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Until the ivy hides me in

Carlos Del Monte’s Verse Chorus Verse

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Too young to stay interested for long in the words I was reading. My father said the man was very intelligent and most of his writing was hard to understand.

Z, Y, X

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the alphabetgiven as jackdawsreflected onmy quartz sphinx*strike anywherepress any keypick a nerve anynerve is this*how many fingerssign here countbackward themiles per thunder

Homage to Jack

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Yes. Yes. Yes.

Rilke

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Oh Rilke, how I wish I would have sat next to you at my first writing workshop.

The Bad Things

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Daddy comes home, calls us to his room, makes us stand in line, tells us to do it again...

Debtor's Prison

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You should have marked that territory like a conquistador, mounted him like an equestrian, left no what-ifs in your wake.

All Will Be Well

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Jesus will walk on the water. Judas will walk on a technicality.

Pollen in the night

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Jellyfish jellyfish Indigo eyes

Trees

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years later, she won’t go near the trees

Thus Spoke the Gin Blossoms (An Interview)

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What does it mean, to survive, to live through? It means the next breath, and then the other, pressed from the lungs of someone who will always claim to be speak truth truer than you.

HIS-PAN-IC

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In ESL, I learned that I was not like the kids on the Brady Bunch. I was HIS-PAN-IC.

First Person

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it’s alright to get fucked up get fucked feel your tongue smell dirt on your skin