Theban Poems | Examples


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as chopsticks for soup 
like a monkey eating scotch bonnets
you have to want it 
 
good luck is a myth
thin as a Theban cookie 
as your skin if you don't get it
 
checked-off triggers in academia
fired as a porcelain finger up
kilned in an undertone of glazing
 
grace is a saying and a Name
tweaked as an ego or a jacket
potato is a hashing at 3 a.m. 
 
iHopper lingering is a tension
getting to the hearth of it
another homer hit past time's fence
 
foe knocking at your big teeth in front
like a door to your cheeks 
puffed with a nut-angle oblique 
 
playing a game of mother elephant
a recess abbreviated by a bad pronunciation
intonation of inspiration at the bell
 
wrung and swung along a well-tread trail
as dirty as a thurible

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