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#753

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 23, 2010

cool to the present, prejudiced, even
and of course the future’s rotten

hording forgotten trends,
all the old hotness

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#752

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 20, 2010

quick, like the crowd dispersing after a parade on a cold day

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#751

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 20, 2010

his last words to his son:
“try to kick heroin;
don’t call me again.”

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#750

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 20, 2010

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went to New Orleans for Lent,
spent Ash Wednesday sober on Bourbon Street
stumbling over broken beads,
wondering if this is what the Catholics meant,
if this <feeling> is what my soul needs

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#749

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 13, 2010

Marie

that night she told me she’d never see forty;
“when god wrote me, he didn’t write a novel,
he wrote a short story”

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# 748

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 7, 2010

drop bomb beats like John Keats

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# 747

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 7, 2010

a heart beating backwards

a trochee-hearted girl

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# 746

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 7, 2010

take an object in a scene and compare it to another object either previously mentioned or easily expected in that scene

e.g.

dumpster: the carcass of the dog was mangled as a can

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# 745

Posted in Uncategorized by The Canda Verses on February 7, 2010

editor for paintings

“paint something else over this part”

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