Christian Langworthy Poems

I look at girls as an act of escapism
while reading books at Barnes & Noble
on the death of poetry. I look at girls
because I think Darryl Hannah was perfect
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(From Edison's proposal for the kinetoscope)

We see May & hear it perfectly as if
whole illusions presented actual
performances. A complete opera
years before a place may have taken it.
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Grasshopper hopping from the brittle grass,
leg-sprung—flung hip-high onto hot cement—
your sidewalk legs waltzing, flaunting a hint
of happenings. I see you now! —hopper—
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