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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 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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Bukowski On The Bus Like U2 the Beats introduced me to poetry. The language lush, rich, and green as old money. These days we all read a little too much into Bukowski. The boozed up philistine postman with literary pretensions. He made it look so easy. And we always go after those girls.
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CIRCLING THE STREET SIGN TO MECCA -for Robert Trammel I am with the girl in Black. straight calamitous hair just touches the Chinese collar of her priest frock minus the white, worn unbuttoned like a holy trench coat as it flaps in the wind over carboned steel toed combat boots. We march two ebony garbed…
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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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Idiot “I want to grow old with you.” and I knew it was a lie like “Punks not dead.” It was beautiful. And I fell for love. What a title for a poem.
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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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The White Woman’s Burden “When women go wrong, men go right after them.” — Mae West “Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” –Erica Jong “She’s a rich bitch ya’ know, she was raised by maids.” —Steve Zissui Our master of ceremonies has just been informed that we…
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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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I Was Twelve I was 12 the first time I was ever held at gunpoint I was 12. It was the first summer I got to work with my older brothers moving company on a move job. Getting asked to go do real paying work at that time I felt honored. It made me feel…
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