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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

cool it

cool this angst some
with beer, amazing
how it works, three in
and suddenly ashamed
that i could hate
everything so much.

(2013)

thank humanity for beer, if nothing else whatsoever.

Other works by Herman Shorts...
no Bukowski

now, I’m no Bukowski but my friends who don’t like poet… except his stuff, tell me they like mine, and I can drink like a drinking machine
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sidereel

oh, and how it gets you these bastard assumptions, one or two commonalities
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authority problem

root it out the tiny bit left that says someone’s in charge not you. don’t let it live
to get it is not bothering to

every story, especially those promising finally to grant the square hat with tassels, is a load of shit. the god which
I imagined a scene, conspiratorial

I just felt what I think I’ll feel always, once we’ve finally met, and share this cool space, like an open secr… It felt like all my favorite songs…
late to the party, or did it always suck?

the conquering child turns 50, gets the gag out its mouth, says here i am. let’s play now
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gap

yes, there is a gap between us always has been now it is
it by wasn't the told of so

life and even one good thing– anything, a course in wonders becomes? no school, thanks not for me. no lesson one so likes declaring to find itself legs. no
simple fail, no malice aforethought

lie still. be quiet. please understand what happens so, next time
orient

webwomb’s not the maker of me. came into it as falling is done. down, only always
hurry, love

so, come on then, brilliant one, see, i’ve been waiting for you with eyes
solipsist's first date

excuse me, i thought you were also the center of a fractal
evolutionary imperative

stupid met crazy decided to have a baby or two... what else you gonna do?
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orphans milk the queen

may be too onerous a task for those not starving. lucky
reflections

reflecting on the moment before, would be useful only were it not already perfect.
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