Stories tagged poetry

Afghanistan, Part 3

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Capitulation

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A warrior a coward fights in spite of it all

An Ode to Drinking (Or why I prefer drinking to writing)

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I prefer drinking to writing. Any sane person would.

Circle

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an arduous process of admission demolition for eight years she worked in a white lab coat and cotton gloves chipping away at the dried crusty oil paint

I Wish

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I wish I had money I would give it all to you I would give you more than I could imagine I would pull the fetus out of your heart Between my two fingers And glue us together I would glue our faces together too After putting in all my

Context and Confessional Poetry

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I like babies and little kids, more than some people but goddamn, children's laughter out of nowhere (in the night, when you're not expecting it) is creepy. I don't like slugs smeared like nightmare goo on my summer-bare feet, I could do without them in …

Improvisation on a few lines by Mark Strand

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I am tripping on poetry. Purple ink drips from my eyes like ergot of rye.

Low Dose Yoga

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Names are forbidden here. So is apology.

Annulling the Future

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If you can’t consummate tomorrow / you may as well just annul the future

I Can Take Satan

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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.

Sweet pea, sweet William

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Sweet William at home in a hole dug by dirty fingers in earth forked loose and cleared of roots and rocks twists its mane of pink and red in breezes with the other garden blooms. Proud flower, watered by underground pipes by spouts and hoses drinks under sunlight and…

Leningrad's Sister City And Her Cuban Sandwiches

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It began not so innocently with voyeuristic tendencies. the sound of concrete and confetti in the night.

Woman Outside Funeral Home Lighting Up

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If you ever find yourself outside a funeral home lighting up contemplating the future of the unknown, contemplate this Maybe the cigarette’s wet on your lip and you are wondering why Or in the middle of the night you are lying awake and try sa

The Infinte Wheel

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Scientists have discovered what I already did once on dope way back in the Sixties. There are so many other earths out there that they are almost infinite. Now in our other lives we have to shuttle from planet to planet reading our poems. And

Last Words of Her Dying Mother

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“I knew you would come.” She tried lighting a cigarette that wasn’t in her mouth. She looked right at her older daughter and tried to smile. “I knew you would come.”