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Saturday, October 01, 2005

 

My God is Chaos

I am starting a new round of submissions. It's been a long while. I have picked out a bunch of poems to submit, but I find the process of matching poems to journals so unecessarily painful that I have decided on a lovely workaround.

I am putting all the titles into a hat.

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The Upside of No Living Room Furniture

Lots of space to rock out!

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Friday, September 30, 2005

 

Stress levels are rising, but oddly, so is poetic output.

Nigella

Numerous spies, spivs and crooks gathered.
Noriega's upscale cousin, Pablo, filed his nails.

Outside, a sign swung crookedly, advertising
"Drinks All Nite." It couldn't be legal.

An old man who was hard of hearing was going
On about the marshes in Iraq, when

The biggest spy or spiv or crook stood up
And changed the channel. There she was:

Slow-cooked lamb waiting for the plate.
Check out those roulades, drawled a man

With a black-and-white accent, his hat
Slung low over his forehead, his chin

scarred -- from what? The other spivs
Leaned into the counters, waiting to hear

Her announce the law they couldn't help follow:
the way they longed for her very next step.

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

 

Ohmigod! Poetry Cruise! Why didn't anyone tell me about this?

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Today is a day when I wish I was a fifty-foot monster that wore army boots. Giant boots! Aargghh!

Laser eye beams? Bonus!

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

 

I want to finish up work on Abecedarium, but I despair of ever writing decent poems with some of these damn words, so I'm soliciting new ones.

Anyone got a good word or short phrase beginning with

B, E, N, T, and/or Z?

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