Bryan Corbett

you know Ali and Foreman and Dempsey and Tyson
Louis and Frazier, Sugar Ray and Johnson
but do you recall?
the most famous boxer of all?
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Stephen King doesn't scare me.
The Boogeyman Man doesn't scare me.
Heights don't scare me.
Prison doesn't scare me.
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I ate green eggs in the morning
I ate green eggs at night
I ate green eggs in the afternoon
It made me feel all right
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before these words
this page was blank

before these words
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i was so brilliant when i was younger
just ask me
well, except for that one time
that i stuck my finger into the fan
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the lights were flashing brilliantly
blinding me as such
the music was deafening
pounding relentlessly
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50 minutes
no more, no less
to plead my case
that I'm not a mess
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poems can be silly
poems can be fun
poems can be dangerous
outrageous and blunt
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you hand the cashier twenty
to pay for a pack of gum

she gives you change back for $100
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when I was a child
I always hated
the soft packages
under the tree
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I told you I was going
on a McDonald's run
three times
I asked you
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stranded on an island
alone
civilization so close
yet so far
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Soap Opera (episode #1)
'Hudson Fowler IV'

Hudson Fowler sat with his feet up on the desk
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Soap Opera (episode #2)
'Crashing The Party'

on a typical on Saturday morning
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Soap Opera (episode #3)
'Flashing Lights: Red and Blue'

the flashing lights of police cars bounced off
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Soap Opera (episode #4)
'Appreciation'

while Frank Storm was in room 403
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