The Mezunian

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

Far-Off Train Whistle Sonnet

Accompanying music. Viewed through blinds, your smoky scents with your rattling tracks & wheels passes straight through my brain stem with the rusty steel that peels scraps & bolts & coal-black fire, painted muddy brown & red. Midnight chugged without a tire & a million-meter bed. Sure your ghosts are sure cliché, floating in their […]

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Patchy Sonnet

Crumple all my papers under bellies hungry for a scratch; feel & hear your dormant thunder while you ready paws to snatch jackets trying to pass by. But I know you always flee from the wall-clung fly-fast lights, even though just made by CDs. Playing poker, you beat me; now I need to pay the […]

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& Then It Leaves Me (HOJAS MUERTAS EN EL SUELO SUCIO CUANDO YO SEPA QUE NO ESTÁS AQUÍ)

To all the chewy chocolate that’s ‘tween my teeth, to the tears o’ stormy clouds both sour & sweet, to early evenings’ smeared lemon restless lights, to bus wheels’ jingling thunder-struck keys on kites, to flapping jackets that make the cool winds warm, to clapping firs both ecstatic & forlorn, to the tea & coffee […]

Posted in Haiku, Senryu y amigos, Metered, Mezunian Sonnet, Poetry

Sorrow Ugly (SOLO TIRA TU VIEJA VIDA Y SÉ CRIADO POR MURCIÉLAGOS)

Blue in red hell, not where the roses rot, but where the rotten roses sniff unsmelled. The heart’s not warm, but caged in cold, told the warmth-made water would only feed mold. Cleanse the black rock o’ fuzzy green monsters. ¿Why e’en bother with those who don’t e’en bother? ¿Find these fish fit O so […]

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Demon Dog Howl (QUEMANDO AHORA TE TRAIGO EL INFIERNO)

I heard it, & we’re the worse f’it. I try to prop it all on my scarlet dictionary, when the spiral binding should’ve sufficed. You just can’t fuck with the fluoride fairy. If you try to, you just might grow a rosy boil that always feels greasy —perfection’s perfect foil. Easy, toy… & yet I’d […]

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