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It was all my varied vices I had to lose: the chocolate, the wine, the spice of Sailor Jerry, its 46%, its pirate- in-the-Caribbean...
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- 3 days ago
- 1 min
mofo
Just like Kamala Harris, my favourite cussin’ word is motherfucka, (and its shorter, kid- glove variant). I watched her hold her tongue...
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- 6 days ago
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Tempo
The website says this poem takes a minute to read—well, if you’re an auctioneer, perhaps. A poem is not the climax of a thriller, where...
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- Sep 3
- 1 min
So long, and thanks for leaving your backyard gate ajar
This Rottie’s tongue is jutting between its fangs, like a sock that’s soaked in slobber, in a chilling maw of stalactites— its pointy...
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- Aug 25
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“google it”
When you asked me for the best Italian bistro in this city, I answered google it. That day on the beach, as you peered into the ...
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- Aug 20
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Not Even If I Was the Last Poet on Earth
This is a pretty crummy way to say finis, when every lark and every oak have passed away, with all the rest of our tired clichés: The...
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- Aug 18
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The Vortex
I swear our dryer is a portal to an unseen universe— and yes, I’m cognizant of the millions who’ve also made this claim, about their...
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- Aug 14
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St. Michael’s Quartet
i The cityscape is cracked and bleeding. You hear a trumpet in the middle of the road rage. Panners ask you for change. You tell them...
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- Aug 14
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Jesse Suicide
It’s the fullness worse than hunger, that ends in throwing up; the itch more awful than pain—the red from scratch and blood; it’s...
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- Aug 13
- 1 min
December
Get the rat's nest off your head Get that crazy-ass mullet off your skull Take your ass to the barbershop Tell the barber that you're...
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- Aug 12
- 1 min
Embryonics
Potential is overrated. It’s the flip- side of what is possible, the call of tails and heads; looking so pendulous— leaving you...
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- Aug 8
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Cassandra’s Paradox
Do you really want to live forever? —Alphaville, Forever Young I’ve always found it odd that immorality and immortality are very nearly...
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- Aug 3
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Nine
There’s a beauty to our numbers that I note with admiration: the shape of cipher 6 and its curving, crescent close; 8, with its weaving,...
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- Aug 3
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Franklin, 2.0
It’s only the beholder’s eye, you’ve said, that makes you do the things you do— giving an appellation to every roach that’s crossed...
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- Jul 16
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As Spring Yields to Summer
I only see her when she’s out, the woman across the way, pushing her lawnmower that has no engine, the grating of squeaky wheels, its...
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- Jul 8
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Profanity
You’d never sworn before in your life, no matter the pain from the hammer on your thumb; the dolts who cut you off in traffic; that...
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- Jul 7
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Memes, or Now It’s Called Eswatini
There’s supposedly a desk at the airport in Vienna, for travellers arriving there in err, mistaking Austria for Australia, dressed...
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- Jun 29
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Dinosaurs, or If It Weren’t for Adolf Hitler
I owe my grand existence to a jagged asteroid— to a circle that surrounds the Yucatan, the crater of Chicxulub; to all the fossils who...
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- Jun 22
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Humidex 54
We hear it’s getting hotter, our eyes that look to the atmosphere alight; our star's becoming brighter we surmise, though it isn’t even...
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- Jun 1
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Sailing
The love poem that I’ve scribed for you is inside an empty bottle, Peller Estates, 2024, wine from an evening that you say we touched and...
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