Patti Masterman Poems

Don't be jealous what others have written
In their own frame and time of season
They are there in the place they've awoken
To write down words gleaned from their reason
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In falling worlds I shudder,
Twitch and grimace
Shoved first this way, and that
By fate, by momentum
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Could be that the true soul
Is stretched tautly thin
Throughout the hidden world-
Thinner than a quark crepe,
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A Nony Mouse I be
My tail is most of me
I run about the house, I creep
I only come out when others sleep
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The rocket went off like a bat out of
Pell-mell, it ricocheted, son of a
Ditched the boosters to head for the blue
Another fudruckers going straight to heaven
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Be dauntless, though the world has knives-
And you have but a single life.

Be brave, though some are braver still-
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White feathers falling,
When an angel flew close by;
There's nothing up above us,
But I saw him, on the sly.
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We can't even believe our own strange histories;
Though they stare us in the face, for hours each day
And awaken us in a cold sweat, during the nighttimes.
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Stars in cuneiform; stars engraved
Stars in mythical constellations
Stars that a mariner, nearly saved
Stars in time-lapse, spent hesitations
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We select books by their titles,
Almost as if we were going
To have to eat them, later on;
I don't think I'd like Subway Armageddon;
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