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Very Like A Whale

by Ogden NashOne thing that literature would be greatly the better forWould be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile andmeta...

Men took the skyscraperAnd nailed it to the rock. Each nerve and veinWere searched by iron hammers. Hour on hour,The bolts were riveted tig...

city of the mindby childlike fantasies andworries exhaustedof my mendacious mindat nothing laughingand for the flower crying'cause it di...

by Alasdair GrayCongratulations! Our whole departmentis glad you are dead. Great dedicationto material output, inner liasonneeds breaks from...

By Bee Bee TanWhen we died,I finally gave birth.It was then the villagers called mePontianak, roaming vampire.My baby on my hip,I ride the w...

A quite ordinary funeral; the corpseunknown to the priest. The twenty-third psalm.The readings by serious businessmenone who nearly tripped ...

by Marcus Jackson She counted her moneybefore we went in,avenue beside us anxiouswith Friday-evening traffic.Both fourteen, we shared a Newp...

By Kay RyanThe chickensare circling andblotting out theday. The sun isbright, but thechickens are inthe way. Yes,the sky is darkwith chicken...

by David HarsentThe entire township, heading north in cars, in trucks, on bikes, on foot,some with next to nothing, some choosing to cart(as...

By Richard MurphyHer voice is a mist on the phoneFar away and precariousAs a tree whose roots clingTo rocks overhanging a cliffAs she threat...

Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word?He is a brittle crazy glass;Yet in thy temple thou dost him affordThis glorious and transcendent p...

Tiananmenby James FentonTianamenIs broad and cleanAnd you can’t tellWhere the dead have beenAnd you can’t tellWhat happened thenAnd you can’...

I want a red dress.I want it flimsy and cheap,I want it too tight, I want to wear ituntil someone tears it off me.I want it sleeveless and b...

TodayAs I humble myselfforgetting my arrogancedefeating my headAs I'm occupied motionlessat the front of the window of your heartwaiting...