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  • All I Want is to Write The Poem All I want is to write the poem  that makes the mute girl sing. All I want is to write the poem that frightens cherub faced girls. All I want is to write the poem that gets me excommunicated by the pope  and I ain’t even catholic. 

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  • A Triptych of Poems for a Dead Poet Dead Baby Blue  for Robert Trammell  Beware,   Life is not a dream  even when dead birds  lying drunkenly in the gutter   suddenly straighten Verona   feathers stand on broken feet of poems  vomit a gut full of idealistic maggots   eyes swimming against the … bone,   (alabaster, ivory, eggshell,

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  •  TRAMP: White Rabbit Season  “One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon’t do anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she’s ten feet tall” -Jefferson Airplane The bullet from the old man’s 22 caliber semiautomatic pistol must have clipped its spine and its little rabbit brain was terribly confused

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  • The Eschatology Of Our Mad Love Hangs Over Our Necks Like The Blade Of A Guillotine       One day she would be gone. It was always her ace in the blackest whole of our universe. The ultimate cunt Goddess of our big daddy gang bang cosmos from the ecstatic screaming orgasmic beginning to the whimpering Hippocratic

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  • If You Smell Something Stankin’… If You Smell Something Stankin’… it’s me I’m the shit  to the devil with your politically correct false modesty  noble savage hand writing  my woman’s writing her novel  on the computer  I can’t write  on the cursed machine  I don’t trust  the binary code of machine language  I want more 

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  • Fuck Poets

     Fuck Poets I ain’t fucking no more poets!  I mean it. I’ll still be friends with’em  And hang out with’em once a week  at the bars, bookstores, and record stores.  But outside of the readings, workshops and features I’m through fucking them.  They’re all “door knob sucking crazy.”  The bartender’s right as the weatherman.  The

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  • Eulogy 

      Eulogy for Robert Cochran  “…they wanted to blossom and that means being beautiful,  but you want to ripen and that means being dark and taking pains.”  -Rainer Marie Rilke  Five a.m. I dreamed I had a vision  of your effete corpse dancing naked  decomposing meat marionette  attached to invisible wires  bloody hollows weep crimson

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  • The Science of Poetry

    I  The Science of Poetry Einstein’s incendiary ideas  words arranged in an  idea of order  mathematical sequencing  it is the intellectual alchemy  of the dead watchmaker thoughts boiled in time  reduced in a nanosecond of synaptic flash  to the ashen essence of humanity.   The pure black symmetry of silhouette in shadow,  tarot cards tossed into

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  • My Father has Cancer

    My Father Has Cancer February 14th 2013 “Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; all we ought to have said,

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  • The Source 

    The Source Each time I hear some pseudo Goth  I Vampire poem  I am seized by an overwhelming urge  to projectile vomit  a red haze of violence clouds my mind  and all I can think about  for the duration of the poetic nightmare is  I want to kill Anne Rice   I want to kill Anne

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