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  • Other Poetry Re: Spanish Streetlight

    On the corner of applecharm and golden butters, where breads mix in with cinnamon and skirts flutter in the absence of crows, culture breeds beneath bare feet on cobblestones. Lonely ...

    Feb 26, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Color of Teeth

    the taste of cotton wakes you up in some no-hour, windowless room. rubbing flakes of caked eye makeup on cement floors, you crawl into your coat and down the sidewalk ...

    Feb 25, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: The Devil's Eyes

    Haha. [:

    Feb 20, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Put Me In Your Holy War

    The tenses in this poem are distracting. Firstly, future tense is extremely irritating. I can only stand to hear "will" so often. Some stanzas are future, others present. I think ...

    Feb 20, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: The Underside of his Napkin

    never try to eat your husband's coffee dregs. keep your headache in the bottle, keep your tongue in your mouth. it's not uncommon to consider slitting your wrists on the ...

    Feb 20, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Magic

    The magician drinks quietly alone at the back of the bar. I hate how the fourth word of this poem is quietly, which is your typical droll adverb. I feel ...

    Feb 18, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Chionophobia: The Aftermath of Magic /P

    A nice ending, but the majority of it made me somewhat naseous. It hardly sounded like you at all - it seemed like somebody trying far too hard to assume ...

    Feb 18, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: To Snow

    The entire industry had frozen under twenty feet of spite and ice. I always told you that you were too much for me -- your hands engulfed mine, my tiny ...

    Feb 17, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: This is

    Coarse is a word, and it was used in proper context.

    Feb 16, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    So I'm obsessed with myself, basically..

    Feb 16, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: To Milk and Honey

    One does not begin to describe loss - the words were never there. It can be told from an army of saltine crackers and music blasting static sorrows into the ...

    Feb 15, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Duck

    Out of the well-oiled body churning gold-wrought wavering circles in the grey-greeny The crackle-paint feet are revving, teary-eyed sunset of froth. I think it explains itself. Beautiful imagery, thou

    Feb 15, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Grinding with Jehovah

    Brown sweat on my fingerprints, I wipe acoustics’s brow again with a rag from the stranger's Levi jeans. It's stained with holy water and blotches the souls we've bled profuse ...

    Jan 28, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Anatomy of Love's First Kiss

    For a haiku, I like it. My favorite aspect of it is how you incorporated "she", after the comma, on the same line. I realize this was for the reason ...

    Jan 25, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Life

    Life isn't a very catchy title. Angered, filed with fear I believe you mean "filled". Don't start every stanza the same. I know you were going for repetitive tactics, but ...

    Jan 22, 2007


It doesn’t smell old, it just smells like a bad idea.
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