Joseph M. Gerace
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beneath the bay window
someone told me he was hiding he vaguely details his abuse what it feels like the intimacy issues the shrugging arrogance of love someone tells me he is dying on a napkin he inks out the invisible unwelcome suffocating in a dream he stabs it into his mind’s eye someone will talk about hope this…
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Other People’s Poetry: Tony Hoagland’s "When Dean Young Talks About Wine"
When Dean Young Talks About Wine The worm thrashes when it enters the tequila.The grape cries out in the wine vat crusher. But when Dean Young talks about wine, his voice is strangely calm.Yet it seems that wine is rarely mentioned. He says, Great first chapter but no plot.He says, Long runway, short flight.He says,…
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"clark answered with an apologetic no," or an acting exercise
practicing, “no?” it just rises signifies nothing sounds porcine i think of her bent ass exposed the o lurches sunward then slumps waiting waiting — a tick — i know but she does not punishment is anticipation the second guessing her nostrils tossed up into the air surrenders her pink neck bent back ass exposed…
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untitled 12292011115, magic [revision]
a thumb jammed deep in the eye of some tragic blonde and stain her clothes her bedsheets teach her blindness you get over pain like with the flick of a magic wand when she sleeps you open your eyes and inflict love preferably she shows you a glimmer of affection preferably when she is tired…
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untitled 12292011115, magic
you get over pain like with the flick of a magic wand a thumb jammed deep in the eye of some other preferably someone who shows you a glimmer of affection the only way to heal a wound is to inflict a wound the only way to inflict a wound is to be kind to…
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sad little de sade
i’d love you to know here sit grey things night springs sad little de sade no more at present the wind at my back so far the moon at my rear everyone blind broken held near.
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once sweet
(chrysalis is the word i was looking for — WIKI: A chrysalis (Latin chrysallis, from Greek χρυσαλλίς = chrysallís, pl: chrysalides) or nympha is the pupal stage of butterflies. The term is derived from the metallic gold-coloration found in the pupae of many butterflies, referred to by the Greek term χρυσός (chrysós) for gold.)
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deciding on the news, or what hemingway couldn’t say about icebergs
trite, trite, trite it’s the power of cross-examination no, a weak wristed witness no, the small jewish lawyer with the italian last name, he plays the best lawyer on tv no, the loudest no, defeat sounds like dismissal and the nodding audience misses it when the witness cuts off the rat’s head these grand gestures…
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