Birthday List
DearMom and Dad,
You asked me to write
A list of gifts
That I would like formy
Upcoming
Birthday.
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Fall
the metal rake rattled
asits teeth combed the
light brown grass
the fallen leaves waitedto
be scooped up
little by little
I piled them up tree-high, bynow
My hands were pierced with splinters
I climbed on the trunk of thetree and searched
For a branch over ...
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Gaming
I'mwalking down Arch
Headed to the park
Sky getting dark
Once I getthere
Girls are everywhere
Fixing up their hair
With their tightpants
Standing on the slant
In a fly stance
See my dog Jay
Wearingall gray
partying away
With these two chicks
Both kind ...
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Hold the Mayo
The day beforeBryan Delaney Telefore died,
The butcher's son ran to catch the bus,
Theminer fell asleep during the five o'clock news,
And the cabbie ordered turkeyon rye, hold the mayo.
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Mercurial
She is quicksilver ...
a barometer...
trapped inside a glass tube in the meteorologist's study.
She cannothelp but make predictions.
Cassandra,
but too alone to even beignored.
The slightest trickle makes her jump.
The moist breeze shakesher.
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Mr. Forgetful
Torn skirt girl
waitfor the rumbling engine
of her father's truck
tears can run crookedpaths
down a smudged dusty face
Ten thirty-two
back pack stuffedwith books and notes
bends the spine.
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Penn Station
Newspaper surrounds her body
insulatingheat,
transforming her shape into a geometrical form
living,
breathing,in and out
The New York Times headlines:
low-income family wins tenmillion-dollar jackpot,
Fire breaks out in 20-story project,
Raging cultureriots,
Iraq ...
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Strings
Many an hour, many aday
I sit down with the desire to just get away
I wield my guitar with theutmost of care
And my fingers place themselves, I need not tell themwhere
They know the strings better than my eyes ever could
And they driftto the places and strings that they ...
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Sweet Nothings
WhisperedSweet Nothings
Supposed to make it all worthwhile.
The weeping,
Thefighting,
The pain
And the fear.
The loss of myself
As I'm trying toplease you
The loss of my life
As I'm dragged into yours.
Whisperedlike secrets
Too dangerous to say.
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That Summer (After Judith Hemshemeyer)
AfterJudith Hemshemeyer
That summer
after you took her life
tilting your10-ton steel into her lane
without even asking
anyone who loved her
ifthey could bear it
I found myself swimming
in my unwashed hair
andwaiting for Chris to
come and hold my ...
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The Calm and The Storm
My eyes werecold, my pupils black
And day was always night.
I cried but tears inconflict fell
Through eyes that had no sight.
The western sky attacked theEast
Above my mortal pain.
The clouds condensed and showered the road
Astears were drowned by rain.
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Thinking
Sunlightfrom the big bay window
Toasted the arm of the leather couch.
The warmthfelt good on my bare legs.
Giant oak trees splattered little shadows
Onthe ecru carpet.
My toes held onto the edge
Of my grandmother's coffeetable.
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To Mom
At an age
When Ithought minds were closed
And you were unaffected by feelings
You proved mewrong
Like a child
Your eyes light up
At the thought of a newidea
And when I think
You're too stupid and blind
You tell me what yousee
And you amaze me.
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I counted the hours from noon tonoon,
and got nowhere.
I'm supposed to believe something ended.
I'msupposed to believe something happened.
I wasn't told to do the labors ofHercules.
And I wasn't told to believe.
But I did.
It wasn't themovement of anyone but me.
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My 'hoodgrabs the hands
of Boston
and frightens the eyes of the
world
Itsshadow darkens the others
which stand behind it
some depend on it whenthey
need a little extra
others fall victim to it and lay
their heads onher breast
slowly fading.
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The paper flower that you gave me last week,
Made byyour best friend,
Smelling like magnolias
With Chinese writing that shewrote for you
The paper frog I sent back,
Which I learned from that farawayplace
That I went to, and now I'm back
Able to appreciate what I'd ...
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The bright yellowsun
touches my cheek in the early morning
warming my soul,
whispering inmy ear,
with soft warm words.
I roll over and laugh.
As Ilaugh
at the words from the sun
it is as if the words
are telling meit's morning.
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up in my room, here in myroom, I'm rummaging through some endless tomb, indirect and thoroughly blind, inmany circles i twist and wind and as the atmosphere sinks into my skin, I realizethe punishment for my sin, an array of bliss crossed through my path, it fadedquickly with sadness and ...
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So much depends
Upon
A bigfat
500-page book
waiting to be read
sitting beside ateal
Game Boy.
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if I were a rock
i'd live ina stream bed and
watch distorted skies
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in the pits andparallels of life
bouncing down dusty pike in a beat-up renault
gettingjiggy with the mojo of mother nature
listening to soft jazz on theradio
these green leafy times of introspection
bring us thoughts of thingswe've stored away
the women who circulate in ...
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Whenever I see ...
WheneverI see
a hamster cage
It is October the 29th
The whole family
isgathered
Outside in the rain
Watching my dad dig a hole.
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