Short Subtitles Poems

the marquee
read XXX
Italian
movies

at any price
surely a
bargain
so i

paid and
paid the
price of
watching

thirty
romanesque
comedies
without

subtitles...

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laying on 
the cutting
room floor
scenes of
us laying
on the
cutting

room 
floor
English
with
Spanish
subtitles
no

Spanish
with
English
subtitles
she was
on 
top...

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I try to pretend
it doesn't matter,
like garbage
the day after pick-up,
or feeding to the cat
the remains
of our 7,300th meal.

I try to pretend
it doesn't matter,
like foreign subtitles
on a silent movie,
or hearing only gibberish
when your lips say
goodbye....

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She rails at unseen whisperers,
un-wrappers of gooey carmels.
Her hat is high and so am I,
drunk on her liederkranz chanel.

I imagine a well-placed apple
replacing her feathered chapeau.
An unpracticed William Tell zings
her headless with his bow.

Clever subtitles explain the plot.
The score sets an ominous tone.
Things are fine till next to me sits
a girl wearing limburger cologne.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 4, 2012...

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Insignificant,superiority


I' don't want you to not say
please don't not walk away
I unsurely don't know
I don't not love you
and it isn't unclear
we haven't found yesterday
why can't we lose our tomorrows
why didn't you not stay


By: Jeremy Siedlecki

this is what I am going to call a Hydromoron

P.S. did you notice that the subtitles in my "The Darkest Rain" 
were their own poem portraying the life of man while
the haiku's portrayed life itself?...

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this is a movie called us and we're the stars
afraid to watch it end so we keep pressing pause

to see the good times
we have to press rewind
cause press play or fast forward
would only lead to a divorce

the audience applauds whispering how sweet it seems
but this is the extended version with deleted scene

accusations of infidelity,and disrespect
alienation of affection,and neglect

without a word of dialogue its obvious I hurt you
no subtitles needed the language is universal...

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