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Moral Essay

Sing! Braggart Muse, the fury of the toad; The awesome wart; “Rib-bit.” the croaking mode. Correct me! Muse, unverse my form to mock My crooked hump, to lance my tiny cock. Cruel Nature, unbare me in...

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Monument

Those pissy professors? Those little dick- Less wonders? Prissy boys! I was riding Waves at ten years old: Smart and strong and quick When they were dressing girly dolls, diddling Themselves. Yes, of...

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Interlude

The pretty boys at play in silly school, Pretending, being naughty, breaking rules, A-prancing round the villa jeu d’espirit The one pretending to be Socrates, The other would be Trajan—this I know—...

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Gownsmen

Concerning the Consequence of Excess A Ten-Minute Play in Verse Characters Karma             Old Hippie Professor (f) Jayden             Black Student in Whiteface (m) Aiden              White Student...

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Thespians

A verse play concerning the conceits of old-fashioned modernist theatre, the obsequiousness of post-modern imitation, its actors and fawning causes; then too, Greek tragedy, in brief. SETTING A stage:...

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Flutterbys

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Solstice

When you with winter lose your looks       And I drop all my leaves, When summer’s warmth has turned to chill             And spring to memory I will my dearest love you still,             Well though...

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Honey Lingers

I with my middle finger’s tip Caressed the bud between her lips Quite gently, like a honey-comb When yet the queen of bees is home. Then as I did she arched her hips, And she her little bee-legs...

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In Love We Are

We fly alone in heaven,       So in love we are: You, my only planet;       I, your only star. We fly in time together       Bound by gravity; Around and round forever,       Tired and dizzy.

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Of Love

Why does the poet sigh for love,            Why pine for milk-white breasts When what he would prefer to do            Is sink his teeth in lusty flesh: O give me wet and quivering thighs,...

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Scream of the Beast

IV. I like the taste of thoughts and flesh, I like them live, I like them dead, I like them cooked upon a fire, Sometimes I burn them with desire. I like to suck the juice from bones, I like to tear...

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