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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

inconceivable

i could not conceive
of such beauty, it
had to hit me
like it has.
nothing
thought
made or is
at all even held
by its sad demand,
this and that be this
and that is what it is.
so easily you climb
every fence ever
mistakenly made
to try to hold
beauty in.

(2014)

Other works by Herman Shorts...
reflections

reflecting on the moment before, would be useful only were it not already perfect.
 1
 2
simple fail, no malice aforethought

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

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

Fieldwizards and firetops. Wobblybirds on snowflowers. Chilled milk and chowder for the little prince. Mothercake for mumbled thanks.
the nature of the enemy

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

they really do know how to shove something up your ass like
day two

a breeze. already know what’s what. shut up. kiss her. shut up...
 2
 1
negative gravity

no means no. no response means no. (everyone knows maybe means nothing
third circle (completion)

first fruits hardly a handful, the garden
labeled falsely

I understand the tattoo now “VERITAS” on your wrist, only there because it is entirely absent everywhere else.
 4
solipsist's first date

excuse me, i thought you were also the center of a fractal
trying too hard

was all stupid. you weren’t that entertaining. i find it all only sad now, that
saying things

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

bring me things to break myself upon till



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