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Bleach | JD DeHart
I just dreamed she was a bleached blonde but I know better, Running up to me in a long familiar unfamiliar hallways, wrinkles and cracks. She wants information, my dreaming self knows I won’t share; I have never shared very well. In front of my eyes flash a series of red images. Any one of…
Words | Daipayan Nair
Two words mate in my mouth to form a third The way, enemies become friends The way, age-old enemies turn lovers. They meet some new Some cursive, some ugliness Both creating violent waves with some coral cliffs of age-old consistencies on the way to an utterance Like the confused Sun lips blooming before a vomit,…
Climate Change | Bonnie Burka Shannon
If he had Danced a slow foxtrot She would not Have vanished Had he swayed With the music Never could he Have forsaken her But the rains came With deafening voices And the fires Yet triumph How foolish Were they More at http://shannon50.dudaone.com/poetry-by-bonnie. The post Climate Change | Bonnie Burka Shannon appeared first on Best…
Sex Lies and Video Tapes | Judy Moskowitz
Spare me your half truths Whole lies by trying To cleanse it away With rhetoric spare me from your Fever blister Sensitive and painful As it passes along From your lips To those falling victim To your kiss Spare me the bookshelves Of guilty pleasures That continue to exist Inside the sanctuary City Of denial…
Ships of Evil | Michael Kagan
Bones in the sand from the shores of history the curse of the pointless point the dog slinks back to the underbrush he can see the blood in its teeth fearing the virus in the darkness of it’s mind it has cut all ties with love and trust knives clutched in dismembered hands death awaits…
Anna Karenina in Fifty-Two Words [by David Lehman]
Anna K. 1. Anna believed. Couldn’t delay. Every Friday grew heroic infidelity just knowing love might never otherwise present queenly resplendent satisfaction trapped under Vronsky’s wild x-rated young zap. 2. Afraid. Betrayed. Can’t divorce. Envy follows grim heroine, inks judgment, kills lust. Mercy nowhere. Opulent pink quintessence radiates suicide trip – unique vacation – worst…