-Emily Fragos ( Read more... )

this is long, yo

( Henry Rollins Poem: I know you )

Between God's eyelashes I look at you ( Read more... )

-- Mary Jo Bang

We resemble each other: mischievous
without criminal intent. A hodgepodge of want
to be good but attracted to evil, of guilt

and Oh, God to a face that stays hidden ( Read more... )

by Jay Macpherson

-my old shape-changer who will be-
now wild, now calm, now bound, now free
now like a sun and now a storm,
now fish, now flesh, now cold, now warm
mercuric, dull - but sly enough
to slip my hand and wriggle off

I hold you fast and will not let you go
Your nature and your name I know

-- Carol Ann Duffy ( Read more... )

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.

Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

Dorothy Parker