BIG TO-DO

Graham Foust

Rabbit-duck,
schmabbit-duck;
or rather,
duck-rabbit,
schmuck-rabbit.

Given eight
severed fingers,
sort the left
hand’s fingers
from the right’s.


YEAH, THAT

Graham Foust

A screaming comes across the sky,
and that has made all the difference.

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You know how sometimes at poetry readings
some poets will, after reading a poem,
let the page it’s on fall softly to the floor?

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“Workin’ for a Livin’” by Huey Lewis
& the News has more to say about class war
than all of Black Flag’s songs put together.

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Enola Gay was Colonel Tibbets’ mother.

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A sound made once more

may well reveal its source.

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The highest possible dosage of romance
is to be someone who gives himself a chore.