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  • Waiting for the Miracle.   Watching her barefoot body   moving to invisible music, she is   a sentient flower dancing   with the wind. And “I just want   to destroy something   Beautiful.” 

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  • The Science of Poetry 

    The Science of Poetry I  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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  • True Bromance

    True Bromance He was my first hipster hat on his silver head, harmonica in hand 2002, 50 year old Mike on the mic Clay man takes the stage at the velvet hookah, a genuine too cool for Sunday school house rocking stray cat scatting our grateful dead white and blues period. This is not another

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  • My Goth Name Is Becky

    My Goth Name Is Becky  a Blues poem for Sarah Vowell.  I sing the suburban American girl electric blues.  I sing the red haired,  white skinned,  blues eyed girl  bottom shelf vodka tonic ice blues.  I sing the suffragette, subjugated, suppression blues.  Harmonic wail of the locomotive steel slide upscale dive bar blues.  Twenty first century

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  • Drunken Muse Date Raped: Gives Birth To Out Of Wedlock Poem Tonight the poems come  Like the girls who fall  over with their legs in the air. Sometimes the poems come quick as a school boy on prom night Drunk on sweet wine, another sordid stain Added to a rented tux.   It’s like that when

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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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  • Get Up Off of Your Knees

    Get Up Off of Your Knees-for Simon Grimm The poet gig is a good hustle if you’ve got the stomach for it Is in this respect we share common traits with surgeons, Soldiers, and butchers. It takes nerve to do it right none To do it poorly is a sign of intellectual impotence. Equally as

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  • Now That Is A Real Gentle Man It is trying to rain again and I am trying to catch the bus to see you.  I ride the metal beast drowning in the cacophonous roar of vapid   Conversationalist ignoring the hostile little faces of the tribe   As we all ride from Westside lead poisoned slums to the

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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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