Michael Philips Poems

Your gentle yawn
while reading the sports section
as they fill your prescription.
A light scratch of your nose
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There are two types of people:
Those who play golf,
And those who recognize it
for the idiotic malpractice that it is,
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I want someone to invent
a coffee table book that
rapidly deteriorates and
transforms itself into something else,
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She made a scene at the wedding
Wearing a black leather miniskirt
Upstaging the livid bride
My kids thought she was exciting and cool
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I.
Researchers say Mormons have continued
to posthumously baptize Jewish Holocaust victims
into their faith despite a promise to discontinue the practice
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Colleagues who die
kept in my rolodex
alive in circulation
flipping round in ritual
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You cannot see the upper reaches of Everest
from the base camp, where you acclimatize
with attitude and finger exercises.
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Those old communists – the ones in the
triumphant revolutionary posters with
broad shoulders and eyes on the horizon
where the sun is rising on a better world,
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The white one purred and was soft.
We gave it a name.
Got hit by a car.
We buried it in back.
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Just shut up already about herbal remedies, I told her.
This was on Valentines Day, hours before Sally fed
my dog some herbal medication
and he brewed butt coffee
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