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Eight Poems, by Charles Bernstein

Everything Must Go

Including the words
letters, punctuation
marks. Even the screen.

 

What Part of Yes Don’t You Understand?

The “no” part.

 

Medical Marijuana

It’s unbearable.
And yet we bear it.

 

!@#$%^&*

Qwertyuiop
Asdfghjkl
Zxcvbnm

Poiuytrewq
Lkjhgfdsa
Mnbvcxz

Qazwsxedc
Qfvtgbyhn
UjmikolP

 

Warning: Drinking Alcoholic Beverages During Pregnancy Can Cause Birth Defects

It’s broken, are you happy
now? You’re gonna poke
some boy’s eye out with
that thing. STOP IT! STOP IT!
(See what I told you, Marv?)

 

The Nude Minimalism

Enough already.

 

In Flagrante Investiture

yesterday won’t come again
tomorrow’s never now
make the ticket, tip your hat
shake a peg, skip the line

 

Theodicy

or is it theocracy? or
the odyssey? I get all
these words mixed up.

one thing’s for sure
God better not still
be playing dice ’cause
they are already deep
in a hole and knees
will be broken before
the night is out.

and not just knees.

 

(Image: Kay Sage’s Tomorrow Is Never (1955))

 

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