death

  • Kool aid and Antidepressants JOEY CLOUDY·WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015·1 MINUTE I find it humiliating to have to take  antidepressants antipsychotics and mood stabilizers yet it is such a small price to pay to stay out of the mad house, jailhouse or the streets of the southern slums with the rest of the dregs of the

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  • She Left This

    She Left This Death and I have unfinished business Tonight we get our affairs in order Settle an old score. I’ve been out of commission For nearly a decade, now this is going down. A Kungfu porno, her praying mantis vs my snake fist. She left this? She coos with a smile after I pull

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  • Bathing with Sylvia

    Bathing with Sylvia Before we met we both knew how it ended It’s a well-worn path  To the edge of the abyss  I know it well As a yo-yo knows the string.  We row out to the edge of our oblivion The cyclones dance at the edge of the void. A snatch of the wrist

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  • One Of Us Will Have To Die The straight rusty razor trembles  in a hand that shakes as if it belonged  to a wino with the D. T.s.  It’s impossible to shave  when I’m invisible in mirrors  and all I see is his face haunting  me like a hungry ghost in old black   and white

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  • The Death Of Cool 

    The Death Of Cool I propose that we initiate the death of cool  “The good that men do is oft interred with their bones.”  So let it be with cool.  Let cool go the way of neat-o,  far out, and groovy.  Let’s kill cool. 

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  • Gravity 

     Gravity -after Renee Maria Rilke   I live my life in decaying orbits  Pulling out of the death spiral to swan dive  Through the center of the dark hub  of the Morning Stars Hell Gate  When I was a child, I circled around the cosmos  Circle shrinking in the dryer  Circling the moon and a

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  • On Mornings Like this I Write Love Poems to the Ghost of Myself I have lived longenoughthat I have becomea strangerto myself many times.I read a few poems in an old chap book.Poetry the soulremains from the ashesof that man.

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  • Eschatology  

    Eschatology “Who in the legions of seraphim would hear my poems,   even if I screamed them at god”  -Rilke   “who in the legion of seraphim would hear my poems,  even if I screamed them into gods’ good ear?”  –Rilke  on a park bench   between the alizarin crimson brick  facades on the shops in old town  

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  • To Do List

    To Do List Monday Kill a god Kill a major deity Go to store Buy wooden matches Tuesday Kill a goddess Kill a minor deity Go to hardware store Buy 5-gallon gasoline can Wednesday Kill time Buy a watch Place it into the garbage disposal Turn it on Go to store buy globe of the

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  • The Ancients Speak on Suicide Daedalus deep in his cups owns this   grief that always embraces the beautiful   lie over the ugly truth is my hubris   martyred him not his ego or ignorance   of no consequence now we spin doctor   create a palatable myth push aside   Pilate to wash our bloody hands of it   history

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