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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

Deathwatch Live!

only i could be this obtuse

 
a few
hundred million
dying days later
he emerges
into crazy
lightshow
hyperspace.
 
it's a reality-
glitch primetime
superspectacular!
 
like a great hand
seemingly played
nearly or just bad
enough. already
the sadness is
stalling some
slow rolling
or bluffing
or maybe he
decides. which
is what has us
all possibly, or
to him seeming
to be somehow
potentially this
unreasonably
 
worried so.

2016

Otras obras de Herman Shorts...
gap

yes, there is a gap between us always has been now it is
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
 1
america thinks i'm dead

like bell bottoms or disco but we need it to think i’m dead
will

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

being drawn back unlike a bowstring but down and in as water finds the lowest
design fault

you are guilty of failing to love and understand me, like a dog is guilty of failing to speak or use
 5
every (other)

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

there are never really any angels in god’s company, it really just pretends them
late to the party, or did it always suck?

the conquering child turns 50, gets the gag out its mouth, says here i am. let’s play now
 2
disgraceland

here in the middle of the bottom of the lie how obvious
 1
day two

a breeze. already know what’s what. shut up. kiss her. shut up...
 2
 1
I imagined a scene, conspiratorial

I just felt what I think I’ll feel always, once we’ve finally met, and share this cool space, like an open secr… It felt like all my favorite songs…
if ever someone is

if ever someone is my dearest ear who hears my truth as theirs
simple fail, no malice aforethought

lie still. be quiet. please understand what happens so, next time
labeled falsely

I understand the tattoo now “VERITAS” on your wrist, only there because it is entirely absent everywhere else.
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