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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

entreaty

we are
nearly
always
a world
which almost
was, an exception
being when we are
so sick with love
there are no
words, no
choices.
find me
there &
this time
keep me
past the fever.
show me things
can sometimes be.

(2013)

Other works by Herman Shorts...
labeled falsely

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

my spirit sings to you, clears and quickens. losing you is impossible
song for baby mia

we go walking around walking all over this town nothing ever getting us down cause we’re just a couple of clown…
orient

webwomb’s not the maker of me. came into it as falling is done. down, only always
superman issues

got the sex drive of 15 young bulls, but the women are all scared.
fstr thn vwls

drry awfl drd sys thngs tk t lng & y bttr hrry lst y
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Deathwatch Live!

a few hundred million dying days later he emerges into crazy
saying things

liking to say things, all kinds of things, mostly about the way things seem
the nature of the enemy

if i stub my fucking toe it’s their fault so say i, and who could argue? you almost
solipsist's first date

excuse me, i thought you were also the center of a fractal
Pavlov's girlfriend

I dream sometimes you surprise me and it is surprising that I don’t immediately realize I’m dreaming
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i feel pretty

the very idea that i could be
selling tears

if you enjoy this pain, all expressions of it, being here compiled, then, yes enjoy them, but
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(being) the favorite thing

this being we are, delights in all things, yes but is held breathless
ideally, a metaphor captures it

love me past the edges, stances and masks, deeper than i know things.
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