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Category Archives: poems & short jabs
black sheep
Black Sheep
Apologies
to my
loved ones
for not
turning out
like
I was
told to.
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escape clause
Escape Clause
Everyone
should be
issued a
cyanide
capsule for
that day
when it
all gets
to be
just too
fucking much.
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death of the popcorn queen
Death of the Popcorn Queen
I’m sorry
about the
Popcorn Queen,
sorry about
her untimely
demise.
But her
timing was
always off.
She mismanaged
her kernels.
She went
overboard on
the salt
& too
light on
the butter.
We’ll see
now just
how much
weight
she carried.
Will attendance
fall off
at the
Sixplex?
Will Dough
Boy
write a
book about
their romance?
Will Monsanto
make amends?
It’s a
fast-changing
world we
live in.
Speculation
is raging
on Twitter
& Facebook.
New blogs
are springing
up everywhere
praising the
Popcorn Queen.
She’s even
on the
cover of
Rolling Stone.
And so
it goes.
For awhile
at least.
Until another
Beatle dies
or Beyoncé
gets it
on with
Obama.
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this is not history
This Is Not History
This is
not history.
This is
the flow
of time.
The rearrangement
of molecules.
The fragmentation
of dream.
This is
how pain
equates to
accomplishment,
how history
is made
but not
history.
This is
all that
is sacred,
beset by
intrusion.
Language is
an avalanche
of misnomers.
Love is
as close
as it
gets to
being
a word
that’s one
with something.
The more
things are
left untouched
the closer
we come
to being
part
of them.
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proof of life
Proof of Life
There’s a
rumor
circulating
that I
am not
who I
say I
am that
who I
say I
am was
killed in
a train
wreck in
1977.
I am
prepared to
disprove this
rumor by
publicly
revealing
an intimate
& registered
birth mark
that a
number of
ex-wives &
lovers have
volunteered to
come forward
& identify.
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