Tag: Prose Poem
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Tarot Cards Before the Mirror
A wooden sign abbreviates the skyline with letters painted in black, back-dropped against chipped white paint, advertising Tarot readings for 40.00 dollars. The reading’s value is determined by the cost of knowing the future vs. no knowledge of what is to come. A mystery vague as the monetary cycle, an invisible ouroboros, an American Dream. …
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H(y)ist(erical)ory
History defined in linear sequence relishes the abstract, securing human events as mere content for documentation, recommending the progress suggests a beginning, middle and end. Empires burn, ashes procure beds for insects, butterfly wings titillate future gales, carrying flames to burn down the next Rome. If events are distinguished by how it impacts humanity, where…
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Universal Truths Faulted by Scotch Tape
Scotch-Tape portioned to an inch, fastened a poster to the window shop glass, dog-eared to make its removal accessible, Prompting passing minds to hallucinate memories, of fingernails filed to nubs picking at tape corners, desiring translucent flaps to pinch a centi-meter And remove the tape. Edges by metaphor alone offer a bargain. Allowing tiny steps…
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I Went to an Interview and all I got was this stupid Job.
Personhood requires a self assessment, where one takes inventory of the habits and traits which define their character and contrasts them against the actions they’ve performed, analyzing if they intersect, or precede in parallel destinies. Without this subjective judgement, one would be rendered blank and become vulnerable to a society which defines existence via plain…
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accidental. art.
Vandals incorporated cracks, lingering in lightning-bolt directions, about City Hall’s concrete walls, into their compositions. Situating horizontal darkness to represent Frida’s unibrow, overcasting her stern expression, holding court to brief glances. Entering to pay parking tickets, or demand the mayor “do something” about an intersection frequenting accidents, lacking the appropriate command posted in White and…
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Natural Franchise
Franchises are a natural pattern found in nature they embrace the structure of the family motif by complimenting double-helix hierarchy via multiplying carbon copies Natural selection situates the dominant features Of these carbon copies And applies them for use as needed A feather for a Nose A nose for an Eyelid An eyelid for a…
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The 1st Mistake of the Paper Trail
1. The night Beethoven detailed his loud affections for expiration in the Heiligenstadt Testament he dropped his pen and heard nothing. He stood at the apex of equal footing, lifted his nose to the impending eve and descended behind the notion of Napoleon slaughtering muddy waters to build a dry bed for orchestral fingers…
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Growing Old and Age and Entropy
Keys left in the lock, location named after its occupant, to expose identity. 3D smelled of wood chips, inscribed on 2D’s door were the words Bridges for Trolls. Keys jangled like a rusted bell as the door opened and revealed the sigh of relief. Losing the mechanism used to unlock self, moments to make the…
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That Must Be
1. Cartoon pageantry issues thought bubbles, captioning the forethought Of blank stare senders, censoring make believe per banal understandings. 2. Providing new fashionable rebellion; Davies shoplifts three shades of blush. She takes them to her library’s public restroom, dips a sponge in the green makeup and inscribes her confession of theft onto the mirror. Davies…
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Showcases of Color with Respect to Advertisement
An explosion, origins unverified, erupted from the pond. Clumps of algae broke apart from each other and followed the current, collided with sunfish and bluegill carcasses floating belly up, reflecting full color spectrum off their scales, to combat the black of their dead eyes. Sitcom streamed through Hulu paused on a commercial break, Tide Pods…
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