third circle (completion), by Herman Shorts | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

third circle (completion)

first

fruits

hardly

a handful,

the garden

a weedy mess.

inevitable success

makes an old man lazy.

some sneering kids

with shining eyes

ought to come

kick my ass

to the beat

of my own

punk rock

heart.

2016

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so, come on then, brilliant one, see, i’ve been waiting for you with eyes

oh, and how it gets you these bastard assumptions, one or two commonalities

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i keep smiling forgetting to remember to stop myself.

superman issues

got the sex drive of 15 young bulls, but the women are all scared.

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

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yes, darling you should come & take care of me, someone has to, & you

evolutionary imperative

stupid met crazy decided to have a baby or two... what else you gonna do?

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here in the middle of the bottom of the lie how obvious

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

so, i’m in this spiritual war. maybe you aren’t, but i am. many great losses

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does a king come ready– made, or doesn’t he emerge from a prince once a frog, and aren’t you

things to avoid

dopplergangers in case you both explode, who knows it could happen, true love too qui… like a limerick, obvious stupid si… like things aren’t. also, angular

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late to the party, or did it always suck?

the conquering child turns 50, gets the gag out its mouth, says here i am. let’s play now

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negative gravity

no means no. no response means no. (everyone knows maybe means nothing

Pavlov's girlfriend

I dream sometimes you surprise me and it is surprising that I don’t immediately realize I’m dreaming

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