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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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the very idea that i could be

bring me things to break myself upon till

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

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

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

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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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circumsized heart

of the things that make me become better only music is unlike surgery

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

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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america thinks i'm dead

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

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