The Mezunian

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

seaside autumn sunset sonnet

Accompanying music:Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to the audio instead. by the colacolored waves whispering their swaying sounds sun this sunday early lays ’pon its waterbed o’ clouds blanketing these cooing gales mintsweet firs to kill the chills counting ships those reekcreep snails sail its walls o’ frosty hills days […]

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summer october sonnet

Accompanying music:Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to the audio instead. fall the goldsoft resin treasures crispbrown jalapeño chips palm o’ palmates blushing gestures roughhewn arms flick wrists in wind cloudridden icarus my sun casting lines to warmcool lakes under gusts from sparrows’ lungs sleeping ’way the shrinking days wake from […]

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Mockingbird

The hummingbird said to me that day, <Just whistle & I will fly you ’way>; but I couldn’t whistle, but only make pathetic puffy-lip spurts, & so it left me to be devoured by vultures.

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I Miss E’en November ( diga más, nunca no quiero a hablar de eso ) [ DER JUNGE HAT KEINE VERDAMMTEN KLASSIKER ]

So cozy is the evening o’ the year; but the new year…                it’s opening blinds to blinding light & yanking all the blankets off me…                                                                       ¿Why? The grandest meal that lasts is that last supper cooked warm on death row.                                                         But now I’m leased to nothing but the clear-skied breeze. & the’ain’t e’en any leaves. […]

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Die Herbstzeiten eines Volkes

Accompanying music: Ich möchte dich festhalten — weicher Atem, schlagendes Herz; während ich in dein Ohr flüstere, ich will dich verdammt auseinander reißen. You gorgeous gothic autumn withered firs put on the perfect play for these uneasy zephyrs round this o’ercrowded theater I attend. Marvel as I push past too many poems for this tired […]

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Day o’ Rest in Peace

( Note: due to internet outages, this poem comes 1 week after the event ). Accompanying music Sunday morn in peace ~ lone, pieces fall together. February snow. Sunday day in pieces ~ e’en the tree I’ve known fore’er falls dead. Not so silly anymo’ ~ a fir’s yellow scarf. Me dejaste aquí como un […]

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October Friday 13 Sonnet

Accompanying music:Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to the audio instead. Lemon drops on milky clouds bound this wistful field above pewter lakes — ¡but wait! ¡Look now! ¿How’d this specter enter such verdant film now ill, when it wasn’t there before. Before I eat my harvest, fix on this ray […]

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