Best Reconsidered Poems

last night's "great"
just "OK" this morning...

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Imagine that process theologies
are theories about the evolution of creation stories
in which the "begat" chronology
of god v man,
is reversed to Mother Earth, 
then xman/yywoman, 
then...

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I Committed Suicide
I stretched out weary hands. 
Melisa, who considered me 
like a big brother, quickly ran away from me. 
My heart writhed unto me;...

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECENT SUBMISSION
REVISED, RE-READ and RECONSIDERED it but REGRET
To decide not to include it in our issue next.
WISH YOU LUCK IN YOUR...

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repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. 
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric. 
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts. 
refrains retaining remnant redolent...

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Facing my own mortality,
Paralyzed from the neck down,
If I didn't have surgery.

I couldn't absorb what the doctor said.
Oh how I panicked, I couldn't breathe
And likely...

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A Pupil of Papua New Guinea 


I live in a village deep in the jungle 
And cross rivers on foot and by wooden boat
Westerns have...

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A friend and I were talking one day...
about how much fun it would be...
to revisit the place where I grew up...
wondering what I could see.

I...

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If a statement is True,
such as
I am WhiteMale,
then the oppositional statement
I am BlackFeMale
is False
which enjoys equivalent truth value with
I am NotBlack/NotFemale,
and I am WhiteMale
back where...

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She will be mine, in the time, of reconsidered
Reconcilliation; until that time is nigh I leave
Her with the spinning light of asteroid and
Stars of comfort...

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with apologies to E. A. Poe...

Student Descent

At first the chamber's gentle rapping could not my slumber even stir,
but as it came to be a tapping...

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You tell me your prentends, 
We step over the ballroom so slow. 
You dare be honest? 
Well so will I: We both know, 
Forevers you...

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How long do we lay sleeping before we die?
Awakening to the cryptic blinding light
Of a dwarf star cooling and dying
A peaceful death, 
Hoping there is...

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At Chefoo Reconsidered we did speak
Of faith as something we as children held
To be most precious, with our parents’ fierce
Example holding us to sacred truths
But...

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I'm sure this has happened to most of you
You come up with a brilliant thought
Before getting a chance to write it down
It vanishes just like...

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