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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

trying too hard

was all stupid.
you weren’t that
entertaining. i
find it all only
sad now, that
we all seemed
so intent on
always making
it matter so
much. might
have been
better, but
for that.

(2014)

Altre opere di Herman Shorts...
selling tears

if you enjoy this pain, all expressions of it, being here compiled, then, yes enjoy them, but
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america thinks i'm dead

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

here in the middle of the bottom of the lie how obvious
 1
solipsist's first date

excuse me, i thought you were also the center of a fractal
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
leaning into it

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

i could not conceive of such beauty, it had to hit me like it has. nothing
Deathwatch Live!

a few hundred million dying days later he emerges into crazy
sidereel

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

i keep smiling forgetting to remember to stop myself.
(being) the favorite thing

this being we are, delights in all things, yes but is held breathless
adventures in multidimensional identity politics

nobody goes mad on purpose, also never is it not shared,
 1
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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someone said, be desireless

we were all talking, things taking shape as they do, when someone said, be desireless, like that is at all a thing people



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