poetry
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One Long Fucking Question for Michael Robbins
What I’ve learned about long walks of course Was taught by the whiskers of a reservation man Lashing a horse Sterile tracts of pale kentucky blue grey shale Don’t take them Or take them seldom by mail Stretching out like a dying dog between The pickets and Queen Anne For a loss They can’t Be…
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American Womanhood
i see her sipping tea she wants to write the Great American Joke Book about consumerism sour-milk yellow sniffling yolk but they get in the way the hardcover wesleyan in a cable-knit sweater the canadian monthly masked in a methylin-soaked love letter hands up baby hands up “But if I said it was the only…
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untitled, 092920121223
it’s not enough to be clever; each little sound byte performance padded; deeper philosophies cold, carrying scaly sustenance; what is a poem if not a poem; a hard tea-thin blade dimpling the pink precious flesh of yr mother’s throat oh to bring her back; oh to save her; a poem —
art, audio, depression, desperation, entertainment, journal, lessons, life, literature, loss, love, meaning, media, mom, mother, poem, poetry, sadness, safety, self-doubt, self-help, sound, women -
untitled dreambook entry, 09122012xx
[i keep a blank moleskine next to my bed. i’ll wake up in starts and jot words, ideas. recently i rolled out of bed and found this entry. i’m not sure who wrote it. very weird. very minor editing.]
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a partial loss of grace [draft]
everything but her perfect breasts obscured by the city skyline man’s promise venial, finger-licking ultraviolent, genial …
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super villain, no. 1 [draft]
Firstly, I’m begging— please stop —Let’s settle this: I’ve done nothing With my life &Deserve no thickly patAcross a hunched back Ten fingers, ten toesLove music, hate snowMiddle class, average nose So, quit it with the praise.Here’s my escape plan — no matter how bad it seemsfor me, hold the ambulances: [090320122231]
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“Proof that cinema is 50 years behind all other arts,” [draft]
The brain function! each line flirting dangerously close to each above suburban new jersey tan sandy sandals skin cement The patterns repeating! another handsome man illuminates his jaw foreground becomes background the first assistant cameraman earns his sleep and Fellini’s big toe is bleeding again On the third re-write: “Terrible! …
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untitled, 08282012
Ample legs firstDelillo crams Babette into a hacking jacket on credit,on blitzkrieg, on pineal cancer.
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SUBMIT YOUR WORK — untitled literary journal, no. 2
We’ve begun accepting submissions for ulj, no. 2. email untitledliteraryjournal@gmail.com to submit your art: photos, poetry, fiction or non-fiction. anything will be considered. this month’s loose theme is ‘digital noise.’ (check out a preview of the cover, pictured here.)
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