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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

third circle (completion)

first
fruits
hardly
a handful,
the garden
a weedy mess.
 
inevitable success
makes an old man lazy.
 
some sneering kids
with shining eyes
ought to come
kick my ass
to the beat
of my own
punk rock
heart.

2016

Altre opere di Herman Shorts...
yes, i'm saying

yes, i’m saying sunshine & rainbows will flow from your heart & other lovely places like living liquid
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for me

i love you for the doubt you show me still possible in this body where you show me
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reflections

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

Fieldwizards and firetops. Wobblybirds on snowflowers. Chilled milk and chowder for the little prince. Mothercake for mumbled thanks.
labeled falsely

I understand the tattoo now “VERITAS” on your wrist, only there because it is entirely absent everywhere else.
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evolutionary imperative

stupid met crazy decided to have a baby or two... what else you gonna do?
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About People and Things

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

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

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

why is nothing i can do now. where it went. what that echo means, if anything
reboot

just start over not so much like anything was particularly
Foundational Concept Entirely Horseshit

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

I dream sometimes you surprise me and it is surprising that I don’t immediately realize I’m dreaming
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he got to die

finally, without knowing it was coming, he got to die. it was great. like a birthday party clown, he was equally the center
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(being) the favorite thing

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



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