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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)

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we were all talking, things taking shape as they do, when someone said, be desireless, like that is at all a thing people
unquestioned

why is nothing i can do now. where it went. what that echo means, if anything
the rub

something you need makes you its bitch, yes even as it isn’t coming, no when love stands you up & all the more sweet
gap

yes, there is a gap between us always has been now it is
no Bukowski

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we are nearly always a world which almost
things of use

bring me things to break myself upon till
america thinks i'm dead

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when (finally) we meet

when (finally) we meet I’m thinking spring wildflowers will bloom on high
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