Tag: poem
member name: Peter Joseph Swanson
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January 19, 2009 05:21 PM EST --
EAT
we all eat pop tarts and nauseate
we all drink joe and reinvigorate
but what do we eat after we die
do we think it over on our last cry
we eat the satin . . .
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December 08, 2007 03:28 PM EST --
TRUNCATED SONNET TO A CHOPPED OFF HEAD
When your head is chopped off, how long do you live
far from your lungs, there is still air in your brain
for a few minutes, maybe, . . .
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December 14, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
FALLOW DEER, FOREST BIRD
Fallow deer, quick beast, nibble in fear
. . .
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December 20, 2007 03:52 PM EST --
HOW CLICHÉ
The rocking chair rocked
all by itself
(I always like it when
that happens - not only
is there comfort
in the routine of ghosts
but there . . .
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March 04, 2008 10:41 AM EST --
APROPOS AND APPOSITE
I am irritating, it's an uncomfortable fact I deny.
I am provincial, but I will establish myself with my suit.
I am educated, but . . .
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March 06, 2008 07:36 PM EST --
MONKEY CHESS
Monkey chess at the witch's house
we sit and sip and stare
The tea is hot, the game unique
and we try to wait out our player
The wasp moves . . .
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April 24, 2008 05:58 PM EDT --
SPOOK HOUSE
my older brothers bent over backwards
and most earnestly goaded me to jump
out of the moving spook house car
if I wanted to really see something
. . .
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May 14, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
MAY IS CROWDED WITH CATS
The swallows see them emerging from under hay bales.
A dozen kittens look so cute you could weep at them.
But there are too many barn cats for . . .
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May 14, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
ISIS AS CHILD AT RIVER
My star has fallen from the sky
the star that I'd chosen to pray to.
Has it done this just to terrify
and leave me wanting to die, . . .
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December 09, 2008 11:46 AM EST --
A stress loses throughout Da Da.
Gather fakes a comedy with a swallowed official.
The murder emerges under a home!
A surrounding mixture doubts Gather inside the goal.
Will a cooked bigotry screw . . .
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March 10, 2009 01:07 PM EDT --
THE ROOM
The old woman got a huge shock
After putting the key in the lock
And opened up the black door
To see the redheaded dead whore
But she had been playing with . . .
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July 08, 2009 05:51 PM EDT --
ELEGY FOR MEMORY
in 1978
the super-8 movie was bought at Kmart
it clanked through in 3 minutes and then was done
that seems brief, but, at the time it . . .
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July 19, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
SONIC BOOM SONNET
we didn't know what made it, but knew it hit us
we'd yelp, then race from our desks to the window
peering into the sky, we didn't even see a crow . . .
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July 28, 2009 02:44 PM EDT --
I love the clouds of July
They make me wish I could fly
They are so up there and I’m not
I’m on heavy soil where things rot
If I sink, I can smell some . . .
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September 09, 2009 07:52 PM EDT --
DRINKING IN THE GARDEN
she's been drinking in the garden
yellow chinese hat bobs and wobbles
on a drunk she loves every bud and insect
picking peas and string . . .
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September 13, 2009 09:25 AM EDT --
MOTHERGOOSE JUNKIE
jack and jill
went up the hill
to hide from the
video slaughter
they took a green pill
to find a quick thrill . . .
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October 04, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
END OF THE WORLD
It's the end of the world, all of it
that's the way it goes
and I don't mean war
broken ice
atomic fits
or a volcano that . . .
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October 05, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
THE FROG POND IN OCTOBER
The mother told her son, I know you think it’s fun
to go to the frog pond without me, but now that
it’s so October that I must remain . . .
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June 02, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
Tea on the tombstone
Crumbs in your hair
The blanket crushes chopped down grass
Scones are piled with care
You don’t drink
You don’t eat
You just watch and smile
Until I put you
Back . . .
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August 24, 2009 04:31 PM EDT --
ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
Merlin got Arthur high on a toadstool
Arthur flapped his druid words
and thought it was so vital.
Out of time in a war . . .
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