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“Prayer” [by Philip Metres]
Philip MetresPrayer Wither me to within me:Welt me to weal me common again:Withdraw to wear me weary:Over me to hover and lover again: Before me to form and perform me:Round me to rill me liquid incisions:Behind me to hunt and haunt me:Down me to drown indecision: Bury me to seed me: bloom meIn loam me:…
Treasonably Good
As the mob sludge-hovels homeex-executioners wash their hands in the clubhousewhile guillotine stray dogs roam. CATS SCRATCH CATS!BATS BATTER BATS!And beer mats get soaked in ale foam. As the saints come marching inone has blessed a mousewhile can-can dancers have anointed a tin. STEAM TRAINS STEAM!GILT-HEAD BREAM BREAM!Washed up with a gleam and a bottle…
My Birth Was a Crime | PYG’s Whisper
Already twenty two years has passed since the first day I opened my eyes and to confirm that I’m alive The doctor slapped my butt then I cried everyone was happy and mom smiled but for me it was just the beginning of an eternal war they thought I cried ’cause I felt hurt but…
Model Railway
With no sound but tiny bells tinkling on an empty platform in the middle of nowhereand a model train silently moving towards a station there,the only waiting passenger listens to tiny bells tinkling on an empty platform in the middle of nowhereand a model train silently moving towards a station there. 6.20 pm.With no sound…
Casino brought to life (by Mitch Sisskind)
Casino is the best Mafia film although some might say that Casino could not exist without the preceding Goodfellas so Casino is sort of like Goodfellas 2. Be that as it may characters in Casino derive from guys in the so-called Outfit — the Chicago Mafia — who ran Las Vegas. A lot of us…
Sudden Dreams | Ananya S. Guha
My throwaway delinquent pack of lies go over, fly over birds’ wings in a soulless search, into sudden dreams. The post Sudden Dreams | Ananya S. Guha appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online