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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

every (other)

just listen
the trees
drink silly..
I work i work
that day the not
distant a who
doesn’t begin
deserve will
me delights.
I money.is
is than hell. do
enjoy woman’s
though. going be
worth on magical
I dally those
the meal
a prisoner will
delights one of plate
the . You wait.
am. working,
about I

(2014)

every other part of something else so arranged.

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sidereel

oh, and how it gets you these bastard assumptions, one or two commonalities
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purpose

yes, darling you should come & take care of me, someone has to, & you
saying things

liking to say things, all kinds of things, mostly about the way things seem
orphans milk the queen

may be too onerous a task for those not starving. lucky
the reason

there are never really any angels in god’s company, it really just pretends them
is there, then, a vortex?

shall we turn down the covers, crawl inside? find there a place that’s been waiting for us, a vortex of sorts
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i feel pretty

the very idea that i could be
ideally, a metaphor captures it

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

god is unwelcome in suburbia, the cells are too comfortable there, & love rests best under stars.
inconceivable

i could not conceive of such beauty, it had to hit me like it has. nothing
reboot

just start over not so much like anything was particularly
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
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simple fail, no malice aforethought

lie still. be quiet. please understand what happens so, next time
superman issues

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



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