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— Recent Poems —

• Ever think, feel, perceive something and want desperately to share it w/someone; and can't? And know you never can?

  by jared (i, iii, v), and cone (ii, iv, vi)

  I

  Ever think, feel, perceive something and want desperately to share it w/someone; and can't? And know you never can?

  II

  Yes. Yes! How frustrating and very disappointing that can be sometimes and yet

  III

  "that," means nothing; we do the frustrating and disappointing and yet

  IV

  whether or not what we experience is a direct result of deciding to actively pursue clarity

  V

  Some might call it opening the eyes, unplugging the ears and closing the mouth; oh and tuning out the committee

  VI

  And some might call it blowing the top off the social norms if some magic hand were writing the script
• Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  by Chris (i), Kevin (ii), Trey (iii), Jason (iv), Dave (v), Stephanie (vi), and Abbie (vii)

  I

  Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  II

  Follow down the ouncespounds and drownsarounds

  III

  Take a left turn once in pwnytown.

  IV

  Don't look up; they'll stare you down.

  V

  Just enough to silence your sounds

  VI

  They fall within reach and then float away

  VII

  Like a drop of rain outside my windowpane
• Her room is a landscape of regrets

  by tim (i), Shelley (ii), rod (iii), jenee (iv), and willis (v)

  I

  Her room is a landscape of regrets

  II

  strewn with one-eyed dolls and used tissues

  III

  Bazooka Joe's legend outlives the faded wrapper

  IV

  like the stiff cardboard gum soon void of flavor

  V

  And now we here warn you don't tarry or waver
• Home again, I find myself

  by Nancy (i, iv), Liz (ii), and Preston (iii)

  I

  Home again, I find myself

  II

  Humming the tune to words lost, back home again in Indiana;

  III

  thanking and praising the Lord...that we ain't in Alabama;

  IV

  She clutched her cabana Lilly to her breast
• Cheetos on the street

  by Rob (i, vi), James (ii, v), blahed (iii), nwah (iv), Andy (vii), Jackson (viii), Josiah (ix), and Meredith (x)

  I

  Cheetos on the street

  II

  new shoes on my feet

  III

  one day I found some wheat

  IV

  with a beat

  V

  make some time to meet

  VI

  Baby hook me up with some Deets!

  VII

  Rocking out to some beats

  VIII

  Wearing a scarf, a cane, and a jaunty hat

  IX

  propane, lidocane, summoning HASMAT

  X

  Smiled, the isle of my dreams