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Daniel Asa Rose never really grasped what poetry was...until he started manning a suicide hot line. picked by hypnotode 8 months ago

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35	dOntEAtp...

8 months ago

Wow. There's a lot of powerful stuff on here.

It's making me sad all over.

That $58 one made an eyelash or a speck of dust or something fall in my eye.

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11	mobase

8 months ago

Damn.

That guy can write, but this one got me:.

Shiny Tracks
I got two dead feet. If you ever put your feet in
the closet and closed the door and forgot about them, that’s
how it feels. Crushed ’em. Don’t ask me how. Sixteen years
I was a carpenter. Now can’t do anything. Sit at home. Try
to take care of my wife. She’s got a bad stomach. Some kind
of cancer: Six months to live. I want to take a bottle of valium, a
pint of whiskey, make that TWO pints, and just go out and lie
down on the Shiny Tracks. You know what they are, don’t you?
Amtrack. They’re a good train.
They don’t stop for nothing.

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14	xenity7

8 months ago

Those are pretty good. Definitely above average poetry.

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