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PoetrySimilarities I Share With Jesus
Jesus turned water into wine. I smuggled pot. Jesus got nailed by the cops. So did I. Jesus had long hair. Me, too. Jesus…
PoetryPacking Up the House
Wrap up every rock against the weight constraints of the contract. Leave one ghost in the granite garden under the broken palo verde and…
LettersCharles Bukowski Letter to Douglas Goodwin, May 25, 1983
Letter provided to Open Arts Forum by Douglas Goodwin.
PoetryFlight
Understand this A moth can be as beautiful As a butterfly. And even the plainest Still has wings. Today, I will not be praised.…
PoetryI Suffer Fools
It's my best thing. I offer coffee and strands of broken light untangled from the mare's nest of whatever the hell is wrong with…
PoetryOne Month After
Blink and you will miss her mutinous retreat. Dill in the kitchen window has wilted but not quite gone to seed, books are tossed…
Poetryaristotle’s ant
while I watch a huge ant light-foot up the drainpipe like it was a piece of cake to trot your whole weight perpendicular to…
PoetryThe Selfie
Holding it right is half the challenge. The other is not to shake before the click. They say that the aim may change due…
PoetryWhat I should have told her
There is never betrayal in the space between boxcars where his face still tilts towards the old life he left. The new life has…
PoetryAmerica America
They glamourise war with their literature, support Mexico w/ the import of narcs, fry pretty much all their food, & negotiate hard. They let…
