Poeticous Logo
en
English Español Français Italiano
Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

nice place

god is unwelcome
in suburbia, the cells
are too comfortable
there, & love rests
best under stars.
tell me, again
how nice
things are
there where
nothing is ever
shattered properly
& nothing grows but lawns,
boredom & the dread of death.

(2014)

Other works by Herman Shorts...
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
 2
shamefeast

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

no means no. no response means no. (everyone knows maybe means nothing
trying too hard

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

we are nearly always a world which almost
always a blessing

my spirit sings to you, clears and quickens. losing you is impossible
design fault

you are guilty of failing to love and understand me, like a dog is guilty of failing to speak or use
 5
leaning into it

leaning into, not against it. no, decidedly for, yes, always that, no matter
 1
 2
labeled falsely

I understand the tattoo now “VERITAS” on your wrist, only there because it is entirely absent everywhere else.
 4
that's what she said

man, it’s hard to come down from impossible hopes seemingly
selling tears

if you enjoy this pain, all expressions of it, being here compiled, then, yes enjoy them, but
 1
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
About People and Things

I love how you talk Down to everyone In your poems Which, unlike fiction Are not covered
 1
Mothercake

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



Top