David Kowalczyk Poems

Constantly fingering a rosary,
murmuring Hail Marys in Spanish,
this word has silver skin, and
can make itself invisible
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Last week, she took a Louisville
Slugger and slaughtered over one hundred
cans of Campbell's Cream of Reality
soup at the Circle K outside Bloody Basin, Arizona.
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This word beats its tiny fists
against your ears
with an eternal sorrow.
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Everything
that is
fun
will
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Elsie takes deep breaths,
and strains to count the times
she's crossed her heart and
sworn to flee this blighted city.
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Thoth concocted her
from his three
favorite adjectives.
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The phrase 'unearned epiphany'
first assaulted my eyes
while reading The New York Times.
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I.


Laugh hard, when the
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