No, these aren't randomly created poems (that is another page). This is a random grab from a selection of poems, mostly by myself, but with some inclusions from other folks: friends who write; friends who used to write; writers who are obscure-but-meaningful-to-me; famous writers. One advantage of this format is that, when there are variations of a poem that I haven't settled upon, I can include them all and let people give me feedback as to what they think.
=Memento Mori=
You _dick_
If you were alive today I'd
Smack you so hard
Your head would
Spin;
but then
if you were
I wouldn't have a reason
to do it.
Ours was a class of
theory,
not experimentation;
We were talking
philosophy,
not rationalization
-- or so I thought.
Now you've graduated
and all I've got
are a few fucking souvenirs
and fast-fading memories.
-- (91/92, untitled printed in _Pathways_
finally got a title in the summer of 2000)
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