week nine

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sometimes i lie...
and sometimes i read blogs
and i write down the names of people
whose entries i don't like and then i look them up on facebook
and then i kill them...
but sometimes i lie...
sometimes.

dane cannon

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on being an inner-city pre-school teacher

i know you are full of all the rage your small body can hold
that you want to kick me in the shin and throw a handful of dirt
but you just used all your force to unfairly push down a peer of yours
no, it doesn’t matter that he was on the swing and you wanted it too.

so I need you to say you are sorry.
no, try it again, say you are sorry like you mean it.
even though you don’t, and you won’t anytime soon.
but say it like you mean it, because statistically speaking,
in a few years, you will be a parent, shoot someone,
steal something, and drop out of high school.
you are supposed to do things wrong and not feel any remorse
and go to jail where you will learn your lesson.
and you are so much better than that.
so please, I beg you, say you are sorry like you mean it,
because maybe, if I make you insincerely say
it a 1000 times, you will learn to mean it,
and your apologies and penitence
will stay right here, on the playground.

megan morton

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an ode

dang little barbie mustang
so fast so smooth
until you met your fate in wendover
where all joy rides must end
curse the world

(photo taken yesterday in wendover nv)


















myron nilsson

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a leaf that has lost its color

at least when it began to die
it had a brilliant display of color -
"going out with a bang," they'd say.

now it's just a stiff and wrinkled frame
in parts almost see-through -
hanging on for hanging on's sake.

in months past it hadn't cared about the storms,
not pausing its photosynthesis
as it was battered and bent and blown.

but today, more likely than not,
it will fall to less than a slight wind -
it will fall to a nothing.

just the passing thought of a breeze
and the holding on will seem too much,
the stem giving a final sigh as it slips.

and the branch rises an indiscernible millimeter
as it is relieved of a fifth an ounce.


i'm one of those kids

i "ruin" the carefully prepared cake
by eating it with a spoon

and pick out all the good laffy taffys,
leaving a bowl of yellows.

austinrory hackett

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i was one of the lucky ones
born with it
red stuff sitting up there on top of my head.
wavin, grabbin, teasin, and pleasin.
it's hard to get, but easy to have.
you love it, you hate it, they want it, i got it.

holly jo hackett

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neccessary

i used to cheat on my spelling tests in the first grade
and i must have been cursed for it because to this day
i still wonder every time if i am spelling 'necessary' right.

bianca merkley

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would you rather be a rapping turtle,
or a rapper who can only make turtle noises?

rory bruggeman

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don't get sassy with me

don't get sassy with me
"there are mosquitoes in here", she says

-is this bit senseless because i'm actually not that creative and so i attempt to confuse in hopes that no meaning is interpreted as meaningful and insightful?
this jib is up!
i'm so elite that i insult myself over and over.

erik fullmer

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ming song wang
noodle noodle bang

++anonymous++

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ten person bicycle

ever since i was 9 years old i have collected firearms

my only requirement for the firearms i collect is that

they are taller than me when held vertically

nothing better than a big gun

except big guns with big ammunition

you can get a lot of killing done when you have a big gun

with big bullets

and a big attitude

man i have a big attitude

the only thing better than a big gun with big bullets is

my big attitude

and a bunch of hamburger in the shape of a cat

chris duce

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pipe dreams

it came like lighting
we all cheered
even the dead danced.
and now the moment you've all been waiting for...
it was all just plastic.


acquiescence of evil

it was inside intellectual exhibitionism
and colloquial drivel.
inside draconian laws
and copious hours of work.
inside hyperbolic phrases
and vacuous chit chat.
we all saw it
and just continued on.
the devil really was in the details.
and so it shows...

ricky cheney

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shine on me

week nine is thyme
week nine is myne

nah nah dippin dah

i want to swim
i want with jim

she's a swiggin her coke and
man such a joke

why's she willy
all she wants to tilly

is about her week nine
so so fine
wish it was twine

to look so shine - ee

this is my poet tree tea
oh austybaby
enjoy and sip sip


here's the tina fey show....

my foot is an anchor and no one cares
it's sleeping
just like my heart
just like my tongue
take it away, i don't want to be down

lindsey williams

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