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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Thoughts on Poetry (Reposted from Twitter)

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How to fake a poem: 1) Remove prepositions 2) Adjective as verb or noun 3) Sex that shit up 4) End on a pointless, but sweet image. Object...

Mother of Fog of War [Today's News Poem, February 10, 2011]

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Mother of Fog of War [Today's News Poem, February 10, 2011] Bring the majority unit. Speak, let the gasses cohere Misting the window...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Boardwalk Desire [Today's News Poem, February 9, 2011]

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Boardwalk Desire [Today's News Poem, February 9, 2011] Chase that balloon; chase is our fullness, Lifting us near red in the blueness...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Media Pie [Today's News Poem, February 8, 2011]

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Media Pie [Today's News Poem, February 8, 2011] Nobody cares for the topic, they care for the tone. Everything's easy—as tasty as...
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Monday, February 07, 2011

Work Ethic (or: 'Be More Like Ariana Huffington') [Today's News Poem, February 7, 2011]

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Work Ethic (or: 'Be More Like Ariana Huffington') [Today's News Poem, February 7, 2011] It's greed that has brought us tog...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Weekend Warriors Admire Boys of Leisure [Today's News Poem, February 6, 2011]

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Weekend Warriors Admire Boys of Leisure [Today's News Poem, February 6, 2011] Aluminum wreckage, cans at salute— Miasma of anus, swea...
Saturday, February 05, 2011

Candle in the Attic [Today's News Poem, February 5, 2011]

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Candle in the Attic [Today's News Poem, February 5, 2011] It's too late for us loves. Yes, our cobwebs are thick, But the candle...
Friday, February 04, 2011

Get Your Stalkers, Sluts and Sociopaths in CombatWords, February 4, 2011: Mischief

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http://combatwords.blogspot.com/2011/02/combatwords-february-4-2011-mischief.html Started at 1:53 PM PST, 2/4/2011 : Steven M Grant Feb...

Prisoner's Daydream [Today's News Poem, February 4, 2011]

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Prisoner's Daydream [Today's News Poem, February 4, 2011] Longing to rapture; then yearning returns. Spend all your fancy—the mem...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

Thespian Killers [Today's News Poem, February 3, 2011]

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Thespian Killers [Today's News Poem, February 3, 2011] Throttle the mic; music will flow. Out of the shrieks, edited song. Twenty-tw...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

The Perfect Shape [Today's News Poem, February 2, 2011]

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The Perfect Shape [Today's News Poem, February 2, 2011] Nature is crooked; it creases—it's bent. Lines in the fissures are jagged...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Riot Lord [Today's News Poem, February 1, 2011]

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Riot Lord [Today's News Poem, February 1, 2011] God is your keyboard; it answers commands. God is your monitor, casting Its image. G...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Calendar Conspiracy [Today's News Poem, January 31, 2011]

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Calendar Conspiracy [Today's News Poem, January 31, 2011] Scar of a pyramid, open your eyelid. Silt in the river of calendar rhythm; ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Two Diagrams [Today's News Poem, January 30, 2011]

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Two Diagrams [Today's News Poem, January 30, 2011] Are we atoms? A ball in our models—no nuclei, leave out electrons— Yoked to our fe...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Recoil From Our Infant [Today's News Poem, January 29, 2011]

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Recoil From Our Infant [Today's News Poem, January 29, 2011] The new biology, aware of its nerves, Flexes and the organism flicks ele...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Come, Run-Away From the Sea [Combatwords Poem, January 28, 2011]

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Come, Run-Away From the Sea [Combatwords Poem, January 28, 2011] From http://combatwords.blogspot.com/2011/01/combatwords-january-28-2011-w...

Monsieur Mange Tout [Today's News Poem, January 28, 2011]

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Monsieur Mange Tout [Today's News Poem, January 28, 2011] Swallow your phone if you can't bear to fuck it. Nibble your keyboard; ...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Teeth in the Wind [Today's News Poem, January 27, 2011]

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Teeth in the Wind [Today's News Poem, January 27, 2011] Inside your face a smaller one grins in its chamber of teeth—they are seeds O...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Rohypnol Fight Club [Today's News Poem, January 26, 2011]

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Rohypnol Fight Club [Today's News Poem, January 26, 2011] How will we war with no shrapnel to season our bloodiest Marys? Gunpowder l...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Pyramids [Today's News Poem, January 25, 2011]

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The Pyramids [Today's News Poem, January 25, 2011] You have wondered where days go, where sweat lands; And you ponder the pizza, your...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Pattern of Rapid Decline [Today's News Poem, January 24, 2011]

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Pattern of Rapid Decline [Today's News Poem, January 24, 2011] Sand blasts and water spouts mist: Elephant charges a whale. Red foam...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Wallet Spirits [Today's News Poem, January 23, 2011]

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Wallet Spirits [Today's News Poem, January 23, 2011] Does it flow like sewage; burn like oven cleaner? Or closer to lightning in copp...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

You're missing something...

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... like a good fight! http://combatwords.blogspot.com/2011/01/combatwords-january-21-2011-simpletons.html Return to Toylit Subscri...

El Niño La Ley [Today's News Poem, January 22, 2011]

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El Niño La Ley [Today's News Poem, January 22, 2011] Southern Pacific, a child is reborn Out of the tropical heat and depression And...

The Daily News Poem is One Year Old and Looks as Ugly as its Dad

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I want to allocate more writing time to other projects, but I enjoy writing the daily News Poem. I hope that it defrags your mental hard dri...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Nominate @toylitpaper for a Shorty Award in #Poetry

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Why? You've got 99 problems, but News Poetry ain't 1. You're saving your money for the Toylit 2010 Report and this is how you...

Mantra for Sunset [Today's News Poem, January 21, 2011]

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Mantra for Sunset [Today's News Poem, January 21, 2011] Call for your mistress, she's marching away. There goes her green; her sa...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

A few more minutes until your 365th day of news poems

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It has been a year that started off with iambs, switched to trochees, fell into iambs & pyrrhics before committing deeply to anapests an...

Energy Conversion [Today's News Poem, January 20, 2011]

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Energy Conversion [Today's News Poem, January 20, 2011] Energy's lost with every conversion. Entropy rules us, dominates cycles. ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Office Jam [Today's News Poem, January 19, 2011]

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Office Jam [Today's News Poem, January 19, 2011] Behold the peanut butter sandwich— Bread as white as fax machines. With so many jam...
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