inconceivable, di Herman Shorts | poesie, saggi e racconti nel Poeticous

Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

inconceivable

i could not conceive

of such beauty, it

had to hit me

like it has.

nothing

thought

made or is

at all even held

by its sad demand,

this and that be this

and that is what it is.

so easily you climb

every fence ever

mistakenly made

to try to hold

beauty in.

(2014)

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curse of the outlined object

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liking to say things, all kinds of things, mostly about the way things seem

that's what she said

man, it’s hard to come down from impossible hopes seemingly

Deathwatch Live!

a few hundred million dying days later he emerges into crazy

i keep smiling forgetting to remember to stop myself.

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

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trying too hard

was all stupid. you weren’t that entertaining. i find it all only sad now, that

something you need makes you its bitch, yes even as it isn’t coming, no when love stands you up & all the more sweet

does a king come ready– made, or doesn’t he emerge from a prince once a frog, and aren’t you

(being) the favorite thing

this being we are, delights in all things, yes but is held breathless

things to avoid

dopplergangers in case you both explode, who knows it could happen, true love too qui… like a limerick, obvious stupid si… like things aren’t. also, angular

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simple fail, no malice aforethought

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

I will meet you in the open air, & pet your pony’s nose. You will be

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