Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
He asks me to make his ass tight, to give
him more and thicker hair. When he seeks himself
in what gets written, it's to learn
Impossible to stand. Or to sit.
Impossible to sleep.
So I squatted in the cage, my knees trembling.
For what is there to say
that hasn’t been said before with more,
or less, or approximate skill?
I am prowling, my feet are damp.
I am snatching at things to save my life.
My anger is such that the very ice-fields would melt,
if I had the power.
If I had the power.
The skin is the largest organ in the body. The skin of an average-
sized man has an area of approximately seventeen square feet and
weighs about five pounds. —medical handbook
First you run! Fly!
Turn yourself inside out.
Another time you escape.
Though you learned the dance routines they made you learn
and you were 1996 Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl
This is the 5th time for me to be writing to you
& I promise it is the last.
I know your reading this Joyce Carol
“I feel like such a… shit.
I rescued this little lost terrier
on Broadway and 90th, mangy little thing