Tag: poem
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Violent Death of a Corn King
He is seized by seizure, his sense censured by tremoring His voice tremoloing cries help, loathe the fallen triumvirate Caesar must be assassinated Insinuate his flank with vast slashes His wet sashes sanguinated, soaked in essence Horribly unpleasant business, host of senators bent over him Runnels his heavy blood tunnels out across the senate Power’s…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Dead Elephants
Dead elephant flesh undrawn creaseless under ice Buried beneath Iveagh gardens Given fatal acid doses by jolly dopers, into-situation-ropers, haunting campuses with flyers Discordian opus printed at Jim Garrison’s HQ; when the president’s head blew that guy flew a few feet off the ground making his view askew He had seeds and gardened them, he…
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Comparing Fish
You feed five thousand with your tuna, praise Fortuna Mercury levels higher than in a Chinese tomb Silverine sliver like a river of melted spoons I chew through Attenborough’s camera crew when they come in view of my reef On sight beef, have a sea cow, man, bared teeth my action plan is active grief…
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Act On It
Ex-wing like an altered angel No such thing as EX ANYTHING Once and future king of the swingers all, disgruntled VIPs Reached a stop, shared some slop, now two’ve got HIV Thoughts are fine we relax with em Any action man’ll get axe ridden. I bang the gavel and break the law Your nose unravels…
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