The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

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Tired Sonnet

Accompanying music. Is it gray or is it blue? Leaves between both black & green. Sunny’s shift is ending soon. Zephyrs scurry up my sleeve. Feel a tingling in my chest. Minutes pass without a thing. Papers lying with the rest. I just want to catch the seas. Now I see some purple there. Still […]

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TIME-TRAVELING DIAMOND-CUTTER-SHAPED HEARTACHES

Now it’s time we tuned back to those classic tunes ‘bout the moon-a in the June-a in the afternoon; & we don’t need no modern-fangled feats o’ olden tricks, like meter, rhymes, & feet; we don’t need to throw chi or respond these pictures o’ stars that aren’t stars but whatever-the-something put into jars. There […]

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PESE A TODO MI IRA SOY TODAVÍA SÓLO UNA RATA EN UNA JAULA

«♫ Scuttling crabs & gulping clams, blood runs in all grains o’ sa—♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa… Not so quick, slick… Ha, ha, you didn’t think you were expected here, ¿did you? Not when you’re like that— no, don’t think we didn’t notice that. We did. Look, I’m sure there are plenty o’ places for that… […]

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Porcelain Dreams

I can’t hate your flapping mouth, iron pelican; I care nothing ‘bout their slander, ‘bout stereotypes: I’ll scrub you fair. ¡But I did clean your bathroom! ¡How rude! (Laugh track’s stabbed your back, my man.) «You can’t scrub the rust from rust; dust shall always stick to dust.» Gray-brown seaweed clings my hands & drags […]

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