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  • Get off my line!
    by Max Ritvo 30 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 16 5:30 PM
  • In progress (need suggestions)
    I am going to break my own cardinal rule, here, for a minute—
    And use the term “soul” in a poem.
    by Max Ritvo 22 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 12 2:46 AM
  • Obatala reflects upon Pelops
    They built him again,
    Not me. They built him again.
    by Max Ritvo 27 lines, on May 12 2:08 AM
  • Bad Girl! Bad, Bad Girl!
    Slap-dash against the rocks, laying she--
    Her tits! All of them!
    by Max Ritvo 6 lines, 2 comments, on May 12 1:36 AM
  • Madonna and Child (Momma Needs A New Pair of Shoes)
    She hefts the kid onto her left leg,
    makes sacred space for her Dice Wielding hand.
    by Max Ritvo 6 lines, 4 comments, on May 12 1:21 AM
  • Mr. Knot (A Short Story)
    Mr. Knot was born with no face. He could breathe and see and hear and eat and smell and talk (although his voice always sounded as if it ha
    by Max Ritvo 32 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 29 3:06 AM
  • [ "Because..." ]
    by Max Ritvo 19 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 7 10:12 PM
  • King Atlas
    King Atlas’ crown was tipped across his brow. Its jewels made a flesh colored slush of light amidst the concentric shadows cast by his Grea
    by Max Ritvo 23 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 2 12:34 AM
  • Ya da Dum, Ya da Dee, Ya Da Dee, Ya da Dum...
    Well it looks like,
    It’s time,
    by Max Ritvo 26 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 3 8:20 PM
  • The Orators
    Their applause is spent and sprinkled
    on their pates by the sprays and salts,
    by Max Ritvo 20 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 12 6:54 PM
  • The bald, stocky man in cell 0404 is losing all his friends...
    They say there aren’t no geniuses here and I can’t think that anyone taking this
    Art class
    by Max Ritvo 32 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 6 8:11 PM
  • Career Construction
    Whomever said it is impossible to work under duress,
    Has never seen the Tomb Beetle;
    by Max Ritvo 12 lines, on Dec 15 7:58 PM 2008
  • Holiday Tidings
    by Max Ritvo 3 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 13 7:37 PM 2008
  • Librarianships for the Illiterate (Exterminator's Lament)
    "Buzz" go the bees and
    "Splash" go I and then there is silence.
    by Max Ritvo 5 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 12 4:37 PM 2008
  • Endwise (The Burial of the Jester)
    by Max Ritvo 12 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 12 4:14 PM 2008
  • 1994
    In 1994 my ukulele picked the last sunflower seed from between its teeth and fell over neckwards and put its leg between its tails.
    by Max Ritvo 16 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 6 1:38 AM 2008
  • The Light-Giver
    I am very proud of him.
    by Max Ritvo 41 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 1 12:29 AM 2008
  • The Pope Opens a Letter Sealed with the Impressure of a Lucrèce Depicting a Woodland Scene
    The sap reminds the wind that it’s me you’re after.
    The pepper tree yews and yaws
    by Max Ritvo 14 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 4 1:53 PM 2008
  • The Silverback's MRI
    The Silverback’s MRI
    by Max Ritvo 10 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 6 10:19 PM 2008
  • There Will Always
    There will always be a spring
    And there will always be lilacs
    by Max Ritvo 13 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 1 11:07 PM 2008
  • The Man on the Flying Trapeeze.
    I am the idiot,
    the acrobat,
    by Max Ritvo 49 lines, on Sep 22 6:43 PM 2008
  • A Short Autobiography
    by Max Ritvo 0 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 22 6:25 PM 2008
  • Pelops
    Absentmindedly; caught up in her grief and mellerdrama the Goddess sipped some of my cartilage and gristle.
    by Max Ritvo 11 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 31 2:33 AM 2008
  • I was Angry
    I was angry, in a way. He should have been so austere-
    by Max Ritvo 46 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 12 2:21 AM 2008
  • I Want an Art Grant.
    Me! Me! ME! ME! Yes- Me!
    by Max Ritvo 1 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 27 12:08 AM 2008
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