things to avoid, di Herman Shorts

things to avoid

dopplergangers in case

you both explode, who knows

it could happen, true love too quick

like a limerick, obvious stupid simple

like things aren’t. also, angular

shapes in symbols of all sorts

avoid these with the true

understanding of the trap.

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

people, mostly all barely beyond apes, cannot be trusted. they are incapable of caring

we are nearly always a world which almost

like bell bottoms or disco but we need it to think i’m dead

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

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

nobody goes mad on purpose, also never is it not shared,

I love how you talk Down to everyone In your poems Which, unlike fiction Are not covered

if you enjoy this pain, all expressions of it, being here compiled, then, yes enjoy them, but

yes, darling you should come & take care of me, someone has to, & you

no means no. no response means no. (everyone knows maybe means nothing

being drawn back unlike a bowstring but down and in as water finds the lowest

yeah, the contract the social one, so long ago supposedly agreed to, we were born instead into. what

they really do know how to shove something up your ass like

first fruits hardly a handful, the garden