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Russell Stover Sings The Body Electric

Would that night were here.

Oh, but it is.

I scheme for morning so that I can wake
and pass another one of these.

Yes, every one of them is called a day the same/

For love's a wishyouwere
here.

(And soon I'll drink your image
from a pearl.)

In morning I'll remember not a thing.

Is still, the eerie buzz of alcohol
and the embroidered
(Whitman's)
sampler of your name.

Author notes

Edna is regal. I am in debt. I long for chocolates or heat. To melt of mouth or mortar.

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  • hks
    December 14, 2008
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    nice. :]]


  • sock monkey
    July 19, 2005
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    Very compelling, nice word association. And totally unique!

  • Zack Rearick
    June 18, 2005
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    Kind of like if I tried to eat myself in a dahs of Hamsun plagarism.

    If we all tried to be like each other, we'd either end up like you or like me. Hopefully, neither.


  • Amicus2K9
    January 12, 2005
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    Yes...I missed the irony...silly old uncomplicated man that I am. But thank you for pointing it out and sorry it took so long to get back. I was just going through my favorites list and revisited your offering. I still have a copy of that story of yours that first attracted me to your writing, if you ever need that version of it for your files. May the New Year be a great one for you. Are you in college now? I should look up your journal again...regards amicus... oh, by the way, do you have a copy of that little ditty for Broken Crayon that I wrote for you? I would like to have a copy...thanks...

  • brokencrayon
    December 14, 2004
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    As opposed to writing with my cock?

    Much love to you too.

    I think you miss the irony here, Walt Whitman...Whitman's Sampler.

    You know, a box of chocolates as love?

    Okay, stupid, yes/but I like posting my fun, more pop culture-oriented stuff on here.

  • Amicus2K9
    December 13, 2004
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    Chivas Regal? But I would pick a better brand of chocolates...nice to see you back even if you are writing with your elbows....amicus...


  • Saint Jai
    December 11, 2004
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    And happily, as oracles have a habit of doing, this one spoke.


    Somehow, I can sense-sing a beauty to the day and a beauty to the night; Nyx and Aurora playing a habitual game of ball and persuading me a second chance. Tick-tock-tick, can you here the clocks fall apart with these magic words?



    Katie, what marvellous thing have you done with time? Mmm...chicky. I love this pretty drinkers anthem. Divine.



    (I'm so glad You're in debt. Me too... by about seven-hundred pounds)

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