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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

it by wasn't the told of so

life and even one good thing–
anything,  a course in wonders
becomes? no school, thanks not
for me.  no lesson one so likes
declaring to find itself legs. no
more ideas please, there is
a great work to be undone.  
maybe after
we can tell
stories again.

(2013)

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will

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

you’ve been invited, stupid asshol… to remember things differently, wh… it means to be human, even. dumb shit, you’ll always let someone el… handle it, whatever always happens
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ideally, a metaphor captures it

love me past the edges, stances and masks, deeper than i know things.
 1
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Mothercake

Fieldwizards and firetops. Wobblybirds on snowflowers. Chilled milk and chowder for the little prince. Mothercake for mumbled thanks.
saying things

liking to say things, all kinds of things, mostly about the way things seem
(being) the favorite thing

this being we are, delights in all things, yes but is held breathless
gap

yes, there is a gap between us always has been now it is
he got to die

finally, without knowing it was coming, he got to die. it was great. like a birthday party clown, he was equally the center
 1
unquestioned

why is nothing i can do now. where it went. what that echo means, if anything
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
 1
leaning into it

leaning into, not against it. no, decidedly for, yes, always that, no matter
 1
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maze

simply knowing you’re in a maze doesn’t get you out, but the fact is the foundation
adventures in multidimensional identity politics

nobody goes mad on purpose, also never is it not shared,
 1
orphans milk the queen

may be too onerous a task for those not starving. lucky
Step Back

STEP BACK! There’s an infection you’ll get if you come any closer. It will open your eyes through the crust



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