Tag: shorts
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Old king’s thoughts
Fog settling on barrow downs, holes for old kings I am an old ship’s remnant hull, full of old things High and grounded, looking down wingless angel The world below me raging like an ape volatilated By a net’s embrace, my finger along gilded cage’s bars Something to mark that Midas was here Through grilled…
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Demonic visitations
Being impure Courage’s scourge Visage unendurable Physics malleable Acidic insoluble Wife octopus concubine.
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Shot dead at the end
Scram when my gun blam Son of Son of Sam Your last moments caught on cam Scared shitless in the lift, Elisa Lam Lost in the apartment complex I’m on the escarpment like rooftop party, dressed for the army Convex part of scope hyperbole fixed on you, say hi eternity Turn a man to meat,…
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Perilabounding
Why does everyone I love insist on living near forest fires No prophet but keep kids from tophet if you want them taller Why does the witch not simply dump her oven, be done with it Then cook the children in an airfryer, eaten crisp’d delightedly.
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…
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