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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

morning glory

i keep smiling
forgetting
to remember
to stop
myself.
now
to stop
remembering
to forget
myself
kept smiling.
 
my coffee
is the first day
of the best
vacation ever.
 
i can only imagine
my delight
with breakfast.
 
the sweet world
suggests
pancakes.

(2015)

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 1
negative gravity

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 1
the nature of the enemy

if i stub my fucking toe it’s their fault so say i, and who could argue? you almost
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 1
labeled falsely

I understand the tattoo now “VERITAS” on your wrist, only there because it is entirely absent everywhere else.
 4
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of course it is not about you. you have to know this, like baby birds know worms come with mother’s return,
i feel pretty

the very idea that i could be
orphans milk the queen

may be too onerous a task for those not starving. lucky
america thinks i'm dead

like bell bottoms or disco but we need it to think i’m dead
will

shut my eyes and squeeze my demand, the point of a spear.  what will happen.
if ever someone is

if ever someone is my dearest ear who hears my truth as theirs
shamefeast

better fucking eat it all up. time is getting drunk & may puke, be rude, before finally



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