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POEM: Nazi Zombies on the Moon
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POEM: Nazi Zombies on the Moon

NAZI ZOMBIES ON THE MOON   You probably don’t even know they’re there You may not even know that you should be scared, You can live your life in ignorance Ignoring the cosmic significance   Of the signs up in the sky And mysterious strangers passing by And you can try to conceal The hidden...

POEM: 5 A. M.
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POEM: 5 A. M.

  5 A.M., night fades tiny words jump into space. Holes in the morning swallow the gap between mouth and opening mouth. Discordant music- The words meet in mid-air, Sharpened into dawn swords.   You lick your lips, they bleed.   I wish My tongue could cut so deep as yours   POETRY LINKS ALL...

POEM: Drum Fire
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POEM: Drum Fire

my restless fingers comb the surface of this animal’s tight skin- these fingers crack, these fingers flex- sparks fly from my fingertips…   summoning the sullen beast’s power into my heart, I can feel the ache of its final mournful cry- gentle bulk swaying, great udders shaking, final breath expelled in an anguished sigh  ...

POEM: Alison
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POEM: Alison

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POEM: Deep Breath
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POEM: Deep Breath

you tore me into LITTLE STRIPS   I hung, on a broken stick in rags and tatters, a teeth-chattering scarecrow on a rusty hook   my eyes torn holes in a stiff black curtain flapping pointlessly in space   smoke-blind, rose-pricked, sky-haunted, pecked-at by thin black crows seconds before the crash came you pushed me...

POEM: Hero
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POEM: Hero

his eyes, full and enraged like two moons. The smoke from the corner of his mouth slick like Bogart, cool like Bacall the trilby turned down, the moustache and the leer, the raised eyebrow, the flash of the teeth in monochrome endlessly rerun, he is a patchwork of black and white dots, a form twisted...