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Jun.24.2008
I wrote this for some girl a long time ago--and I gave it to her and I don't think she ever really appreciated it. It's still a really good poem though--and I even cock-block one of my friends in it with because he was too cheap to buy this girl roses...live and learn, right? Fun stuff... ...
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Apr.18.2008
Here we are--part 4 of my 6 piece poetry submission to "The New Yorker" magazine. I'm not a big fan of abstract and unorthodox usage of the page when it comes to writing poems--but this was one of those pieces where I had this incredibly vivid dream...that was completely all over the...
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Apr.16.2008
Oh oh oh--we've reached the "hump" of my 6 piece submission to "The New Yorker" last November. I hope you enjoy this piece; I consider this to be an "ambitious" piece from my body of work. I swear, I'm not a pervert--I'm just consumed by intimacy and science and how...
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Apr.14.2008
Several months ago, I attempted to submit 6 poems to the New Yorker. March was allegedly the month that they would contact me IF they were interested in my work... ...I never heard back, sadly. So I figure, what the hell, let's share the six pieces I was planning on sharing with the literati-...