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The Name of a Fish
by Faith Shearin ( Read more... ) -
Death comes to me again, a girl
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One Interpretation of Your Silence
by Bob HicokProbably I hurt your aesthetic feelings ( Read more... ) -
Sleeping Beauty
- by Josef Wittmann, translated by Jack Zipes
Keep sleeping:
I'm not a prince,
I have no sword
nor have I time
to cut the hedge
to climb the wall
to give a kiss
or marry you...
Tomorrow
I must start work early
(or I'll be fired)
My dreaming must wait
till Sunday
My thinking till vacation
time
Keep sleeping
and dream another hundred years
until the right one
appears
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Your Catfish Friend
by Richard Brautigan
If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful
here by this pond. I wish
somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your ( Read more... )
