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Scrublands
It is early October supple branches & pliant leaves on native bushes are stiffening it’s time for me to start wearing long pants to prevent scratching my legs…
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THURSDAY, OCT 8, 2026 · THREE FLIES & THE DAILY FLY
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Poetry Reading Enters Third Hour of Introducing the Poet
The poet has eleven lines to read. The host has reached his undergraduate influences.
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7:52 acid is working i know because i just watched water dry on my shirt texted karsten water disappears he said yeah fuck karsten opened facebook trump closed…
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Cellular Memory
A shirtless man standing alone inside the fenced area of an empty dog park at sundown in Arizona blowing a shofar in one long unbroken blast gave me…
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I was thinking about starting an internet poetry forum
By Lance Watson
So i went online to study the one that says it’s “the web’s most active poetry forum” or…
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Her motivation was simple enough. “Why should the kids get all the presents?” a red-clad woman said as…
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Things to do instead of behaving.
Blind Date With a Poem
No title. No author. Read first; meet the culprit afterward.
It was a strange sermon.
Most adults were nodding
in deference,
some with fatigue.
I didn’t get it, until I got home
and heard a different version
watching Popeye on Sunday
morning cartoon shows.
Exodus 3:14, KJV: "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." ... Exodus 3:14, NLT: "God replied to Moses, 'I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.'"
Exodus 3:14
by Tom Strong
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Choose Your Poison
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The Cut-Up Machine
Paste your own prose. Nothing leaves your browser. Then let the machine make a small mess of it.
The wreckage will appear here.
The First Infestation
2017—2025
75 pieces. Nine years of poetry, fiction, art, humor and other things that probably should have been supervised.
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