Poetry – GTC

Liberated Computer

February 5, 2012

omniscient computer denies access to my pictures file

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Over Written

February 2, 2012

novels over written short stories over written poetry

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John Wilkes Booth Today

January 30, 2012

mustn’t permit deed of john wilkes booth to stand instead remove from that time and place and raise today in theatrical family thriving in manhattan and nod when hollywood beckons splendid booth becomes movie star in his early twenties making millions while drinks snorts and occasionally crashes cars but fires only slurred words To see…

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Egyptian Generals Suppress Opponents

January 28, 2012

to protect freedom won in revolution we egyptian generals must stop foreign backed enemies demanding democracy settle down or fall into mubarak’s courtroom bed

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New Employee

January 27, 2012

new employee pulls my eyes hardens hers couple months later feel gentler look up say wait aren’t you

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State of the Union

January 26, 2012

This story is from the collection “Obama on Edge”

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Interview with Robert F. Kennedy

January 25, 2012

gtc – could you as promised have really gotten u.s. out of vietnam rfk – certainly at least couple months before richard nixon did gtc – how would world be different if you’d been president rfk – based on my real accomplishments and everything that’s happened since would be about same gtc – would anything…

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Invitation to Brave Tweeters

January 24, 2012

brave men tweeting san francisco forty niner kyle williams should die should jump from golden gate should catch bullet should blow up in car because twice fumbled football are invited to next tweet at team headquarters Source: SFGate.com on January 23, 2012

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Updates for John F. Kennedy

January 24, 2012

mister president sorry to tell you bobby assassinated in ‘sixty eight right after winning california primary jackie fled to marry aristotle onassis died of cancer age sixty four john john dashing and popular but crashed plane age thirty eight caroline fine but says you know a lot

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Chevron Tests Aftereffects of Oil Wells in Ecuador

January 24, 2012

chevron swears did not contaminate land and water in amazonian northeast ecuador then have drink say plaintiffs chevron says not thirsty but water fine watch this throws rock does not sink Source: “Reversal of Fortune” by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker January 9, 2012

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Crime Scene

January 23, 2012

man handcuffed chest down on floor head other side of room

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Trust Newt Gingrich

January 22, 2012

trust newt gingrich god and south carolina have forgiven him

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Korean Wail

January 18, 2012

tried to cry for kim jong il but could not my brother cried loudly but without dramatic skill now we rehearse in jail

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Remembering Mass Murder in San Fernando, Mexico

January 17, 2012

There hasn’t been much new news in search engines about the discovery one year ago of a hundred seventy-seven corpses near San Fernando, Mexico. Occasional reports merely reminded that just eighty miles south of Brownsville, Texas, Mexican authorities ignored a mountain of unclaimed luggage in a bus depot before finally digging holes and discovering mummified…

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Party

January 16, 2012

at party naked couple hugs painting each other

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Orange Ladies

January 16, 2012

two mouths pout under hats above dresses sexy or mean better assume mean and sexy

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Amiri Baraka Clears Mind

January 14, 2012

decades ago when poet amiri baraka’s surname jones rebuked for obscenity by langston hughes in essay “that boy leroi” now almost eighty on stage with fiftyish daughter at hammer museum and can’t remember abstract impressionist painter who dripped jackson pollock she said and the mexican muralist my man diego rivera she said baraka generally lucid…

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Bashar al-Assad Gets Tougher

January 12, 2012

i am not dork or mass murderer i’m president for life of syria and prepared to strike with iron fist those foreign terrorists who’ve been agitating my people this i decreed during fiery two hour speech forcing everyone to understand my father and i’ve ruled syria forty years lot less than forever they’ll have to…

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Middle of River – Part 2

January 11, 2012

(This vertical prose has been rewritten in horizontally and posted on July 24, 2012.) stay out of american river kids in neighborhood often told there’s undertow you can’t see branches either here read today’s newspaper another boy’s drowned still couldn’t stay out of water nor could other kids swimming whenever wanted never meeting danger until…

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Roll Pretty River

January 10, 2012

where did he go in wonder what happened couldn’t he swim two days under you saw them bring him out what’d he look like that had to be tough

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