Substitute Non-Believerfor the teacher who doesn’t believe in poetry:Substitute Non-Believer
have you ever drowned in April showers along side the Robins and the sluggish worms plunging their pink heads through the earth?
have you constructed a person in your starry nights only to find they don’t- they never- exist?
have you awoken from a dream and would kill (or die) to go back again. and again.
have you reflected in a silver spoon or a pair of sunglasses or a quiet fishbowl?
h
Remember to RiseDrop.Remember to Rise
your sentence.
it’s running and no one’s gonna catch it.
the towns will be starry nights and mountains will move like snakes on parchment.
My friend-
if you’re not ahead
Caught Cleaningi found your cigarettesCaught Cleaning
the morning after and i
had to wash my bed sheets
twice.
once for the smoke and the coffee cup you broke.
and once more for all the times you’ve screwed me over.
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you're my unwanted memory.
i still can't seem to rid
my mind of you.
each thought claws at my temples. come good time and the charades will collapse.
i’ll catch your motions ripped straight from the scenes.
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so, there’s this thing
called apologizing. y
manifest destinationWinant BLVD. (RT-46)manifest destination
a school of fish flowed by me as I stood waiting for the bus
(which would be a whale in this metaphor)
their current fed the gust that sent embers sizzling
at my cheeks, as I lipped a cigarette failing to keep ash
but rather,
embracing its own naked cherry like a dandelion in a hurricane.
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each blotch of earth that slid past the window bored me more than
I've always been a poetas a little boy I used toI've always been a poet
tell the stars
what daylight
was like, and ask them
why the sun
spent so much time with china.
I would sit indian style on my ninja-
turtle bed spread, and talk the moon behind the mountains.
Dear Nazisevery other week, I get a letter from the Hackensack Liabrary. they plead with me,Dear Nazis
to pay my late fees and return the over- due books I checked out several months ago.
I'm not sure how they got my new address and my initial instinct was to ignore them,
but after the 34th letter, I decided to be a good
sport, and write a reply.
"Dear Nazis,
A tall skinny fellow with undersized clothes unkindly asked me to leave your establishment. He had thick knots for elbows and his ankles showed which lead me to believe
Back From Florida
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'SHARKS DON'T SLEEP' a collection of poems by Eric Hamilton.
Thank you so so much for the
<3
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so pregnant with meaning i am lactating... not really.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
~Ancient Persian Saying
xo!
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an antique arms and armor expert
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Hello world! I love you.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
~Ancient Persian Saying
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Hello world! I love you.
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.X.x. Scream Like No One's Listening .x.X.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
~Ancient Persian Saying
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