Derek R. Audette

If John Kerry were a breakfast,
what would he be like?
Not all that tasty, I suspect,
but still a hell of a lot better than
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Many people tell me
that my poetry
is awful,
and,
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The shortest poem ever written
was a poem that just said:
“A”
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Harry Potter’s an enigma.
His forehead bears a peculiar stigma.
Yet there’s a question I’ve often pondered,
a complex query which no puzzle surpasses:
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I am yes, and you are no,
and between the two, we both might show,
how man can dream his dream so well,
and find the magic within the spell.
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The city is short today
and it can’t be anymore
than just a few blocks wide today
and the city is grey today,
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Bukowski ate my liver!
I would never have believed it,
if I were not right there
when it happened.
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I thought about changing
the style of man that I am.
I thought of
discarding
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Strange shapes can be seen
when the full moon shines through the clouds.
Stange shapes can be seen,
frightengly realistic images
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There is no known system
which exists
independently of any other system.
All known systems exert an influence
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The heavens shimmer with points of light
They poke their image through a canopy of dark
raging and churning with awesome might
They burn themselves a wondrous mark
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Eat
eat
to eat
feed
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The woman who lives behind me
just opened her blinds,
she opened the blinds
of her bedroom window,
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Out on Steamerhead road
the sun burning there
too bright to see
the awesome heat tears at me
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Sometimes
it feels as if
there is some great
masterpiece
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I have a poet friend
who assures me
that he could write
poetry from now until the
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The storm has passed over now,
gone

I stood with my head
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If I had one wish,
I'd be tempted
to wish for the ability to invent
a machine
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In the year 2006
there is a strange phenomena which has occurred
and humans
are not yet aware
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Humor
humor and soup
and philosophy
and dreams of artificial splendor -
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