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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

trying too hard

was all stupid.
you weren’t that
entertaining. i
find it all only
sad now, that
we all seemed
so intent on
always making
it matter so
much. might
have been
better, but
for that.

(2014)

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song for baby mia

we go walking around walking all over this town nothing ever getting us down cause we’re just a couple of clown…
every (other)

just listen the trees drink silly.. I work i work that day the not
will

shut my eyes and squeeze my demand, the point of a spear.  what will happen.
the reason

there are never really any angels in god’s company, it really just pretends them
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
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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i feel pretty

the very idea that i could be
reboot

just start over not so much like anything was particularly
ideally, a metaphor captures it

love me past the edges, stances and masks, deeper than i know things.
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when (finally) we meet

when (finally) we meet I’m thinking spring wildflowers will bloom on high
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adventures in multidimensional identity politics

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

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

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