Birthday List
DearMom and Dad,
You asked me to write
A list of gifts
That I would like formy
Upcoming ...
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Fall
the metal rake rattled
asits teeth combed the
light brown grass
the fallen leaves waitedto ...
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Gaming
I'mwalking down Arch
Headed to the park
Sky getting dark
Once I getthere
Girls are everywhere ...
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Hold the Mayo
The day beforeBryan Delaney Telefore died,
The butcher's son ran to catch the bus,
Theminer fell asleep during the five o'clock news,
And the cabbie ordered turkeyon rye, hold the mayo ...
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Mercurial
She is quicksilver ...
a barometer...
trapped inside a glass tube in the meteorologist's study.
She cannothelp but make predictions.
Cassandra, ...
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Mr. Forgetful
Torn skirt girl
waitfor the rumbling engine
of her father's truck
tears can run crookedpaths
down a smudged dusty face ...
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Penn Station
Newspaper surrounds her body
insulatingheat,
transforming her shape into a geometrical form
living,
breathing,in and out ...
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Strings
Many an hour, many aday
I sit down with the desire to just get away
I wield my guitar with theutmost of care
And my fingers place themselves, I need not tell themwhere
They know the strings better than my eyes ever could ...
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Sweet Nothings
WhisperedSweet Nothings
Supposed to make it all worthwhile.
The weeping,
Thefighting, ...
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That Summer (After Judith Hemshemeyer)
AfterJudith Hemshemeyer
That summer
after you took her life
tilting your10-ton steel into her lane ...
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The Calm and The Storm
My eyes werecold, my pupils black
And day was always night.
I cried but tears inconflict fell
Through eyes that had no sight.
The western sky attacked theEast ...
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Thinking
Sunlightfrom the big bay window
Toasted the arm of the leather couch.
The warmthfelt good on my bare legs.
Giant oak trees splattered little shadows
Onthe ecru carpet. ...
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To Mom
At an age
When Ithought minds were closed
And you were unaffected by feelings
You proved mewrong
Like a child
Your eyes light up
At the thought of a newidea
And when I think
You're too stupid and blind
You tell me what yousee
And you amaze me.
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I counted the hours from noon tonoon,
and got nowhere.
I'm supposed to believe something ended.
I'msupposed to believe something happened.
I wasn't told to do the labors ofHercules. ...
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My 'hoodgrabs the hands
of Boston
and frightens the eyes of the
world
Itsshadow darkens the others ...
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The paper flower that you gave me last week,
Made byyour best friend,
Smelling like magnolias
With Chinese writing that shewrote for you
The paper frog I sent back, ...
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The bright yellowsun
touches my cheek in the early morning
warming my soul,
whispering inmy ear,
with soft warm words. ...
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up in my room, here in myroom, I'm rummaging through some endless tomb, indirect and thoroughly blind, inmany circles i twist and wind and as the atmosphere sinks into my skin, I realizethe punishment for my sin, an array of bliss crossed through my path, it fadedquickly with sadness and wrath, I ...
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So much depends
Upon
A bigfat
500-page book
waiting to be read
sitting beside ateal
Game Boy.
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if I were a rock
i'd live ina stream bed and
watch distorted skies
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in the pits andparallels of life
bouncing down dusty pike in a beat-up renault
gettingjiggy with the mojo of mother nature
listening to soft jazz on theradio
these green leafy times of introspection ...
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Whenever I see ...
WheneverI see
a hamster cage
It is October the 29th
The whole family
isgathered ...
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