8-word poem: THE NEW YEAR'S EVE STORY

Times Square
Once beckoned—
Then I
Woke up.

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With faith
We try
To meet destiny
Halfway.

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That sucking
Sound
You just heard:
It's humanity.

8-word poem: THE NOW THAT CHRISTMAS IS BEHIND US STORY

Hey,
Where's my
Partridge
In a
Pear tree?

8-word poem: THE I CAN'T REMEMBER A MERRIER CHRISTMAS STORY

A Christmas miracle:
I've come
To appreciate
Family.

8-word poem: THE CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE STORY

And to
All a
Good God
How tiresome.

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The look
In your
Eyes
Shines like
Stars.

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On the
Eighth
Day of
Christmas,
This poem.

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It's a wonderful
Life,
Until you're
Snowed in.

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Don't ask
About the
Words—
They're just
Placeholders.

8-word poem: THE THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH STORY

Young, confident
Good-looking.
I wonder
What that's
Like.

8-word poem: THE WHAT PART OF START WITHOUT ME DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? STORY

I'm writing
This
Instead of
Attending
The meeting!

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Digressions
Are forever—
They speak of
Night phantoms.

iTuneage - recent baker's dozen

1. "Little Bit O' Soul" - The Music Explosion
2. "Grace" - Jeff Buckley
3. "Funky Nassau" - The Beginning Of The End
4. "Gloomy Sunday" - Lydia Lunch
5. "That's Why" - Jackie Wilson
6. "Cause = Time" - Broken Social Scene
7. "Spanish Boots" - The Jeff Beck Group
8. "As Soon As The Sun Goes Down" - Animal Logic
9. "Chinese Democracy" - Guns N' Roses
10. "Bed For The Scraping" - Fugazi
11. "Love Removal Machine" - The Cult
12. "Legend Of A Mind" - The Moody Blues
13. "Young Americans" - David Bowie (Live On The Dick Cavett Show)

8-word poem: THE SEAN AVERY MAY BE AN ASS BUT HE'S A HUMAN BEING STORY

Thank God
I never
Publicly said
"Sloppy seconds."

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The Man
Who came
To dinner
Skipped dessert.

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The man
Speaks the
Truth.
I believe
It.

THERE WAS A PLACE, BUT THIS IS NOT THAT PLACE

Charisma beauty
I heard you saying something
about a limousine
a mile long
and all the boys
desperate enough to pander
that's galling
it should appear as tribute
and the effortlessness obvious
I heard of cities
Detroit, New York
and states
Wyoming and Montana, Nebraska
I don't know these
but I do hear awesome
without irony sometimes
in a voice suggesting
extra adenoids
when I sit still enough
it all passes by
in booming silence.

THE PRICE OF CHEAP HEAT

Watching your life flash
before my eyes I consider
cheap alternatives to after
life matriculation these are
the questions Dusty Rhodes
never wrestled with in a
steel cage how sour the taste
of your disapproval you'd
think I'd be used to the
flavor of defeat by now there
is no what I want what you
need it's all the same thing
and only ever increasing
we can no longer afford it.

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You only live
Twice;
Better pack fresh
Underwear.

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I hate
Goodbyes
More than
I hate
Hellos.

8-word poem: THE CERTAIN NATURAL SUBSTANCES STORY

It is like
Watching
Times Square
Light up.

THE SHIMMER THEORY

I heard about her plan to transcribe
my more outrageous tendencies
Standing bowlegged at the door
wishing you were there
Lord it shows
And for that I do apologize

The fear I ate in pie-sized slices
It was easier that way
And I'm nothing
If not easy
So many facets to such a dull concern

They let the tubes bleed out
everyone in on it
And when they blew their whistles
And cried everyone out of the pool
I detected a time signature shift
And heard you'd make a good cop.

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Up late
Is generally
Regrettable
Come the morning.

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You cannot
Play
If you
Do not
Win.

8-word poem: THE KUNG FU PANDA STORY

For Ruslana Stolbova

It's a creepy
World
In which we
Live.