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Unless you howl like Ginsberg, Or maim yourself like Van Gogh, Or choke on gas like Plath, You'll go unnoticed evermore, Your presence here on Ear..

There's nothing prideworthy in my life. Accomplishments? Those routine hurdles All part and parcel of the race Prescribed for the Western middle cl..

The dogs outside of the Starbucks Wag their tails in greeting At passersby and their leashed companions Who prance along just a nose too far To sn..

Triangulating where I think we are By locking sights upon the farthest star, Connecting dots that likely don't exist, And chanting like a mindless ..

In the drug of the moment, Things get said, Imperishables like Forevermore, and I think I love you. But then you coast down to Less ethereal lev..

My apologies in advance For failing to ease the stranglehold My kind has used to cripple you, Benign sustainer of limb and breath. It makes no sen..

Eighty years have expired since "Native Son" First rained down on library shelves (Birmingham's excluded), And in that time, There have been some ..

If you were my lover, What would we do? Would we be kind and loyal to each other? Would we give up free agency? Could we train ourselves to be les..

I will raise you, Kiribati, Meedhoo, Sarichef, and Yap, With the slag of ancient smelters, Furnaces now eons-dead; Where in heavens they once flic..

We are the Earthbound Opera, A company in chains, For while we may sing tra-la-la, We're racked with gruesome pains; We're cursed to court unhappi..