Eric Torgersen Never Poems
- 1. An Apple From Walt Whitman
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... - 2. Open Stage Poetry Reading
After the one that sings, and after the one
that can make up poems of a kind right on the spot;
after a girl who didn't . . . walk very well,
took five minutes to get from her seat to the stage
... - 3. First Shot
I said I was hunting deer. I knew the trails, the split tracks and pellets of shit; circles
where they bedded down together. I faced a buck once, for almost ten minutes I think;
I moved first and it left me. I ran home to think.
... - 4. No Dancer / Still Walking
In one of the open-air restaurants
along the beach at Progreso
three shy pretty Indian girls
danced for us with trays bottles
... - 5. The Man Who Broke Up The Dinner Party Answers
It made me feel small, like a husband,
and I never married, never owned
a table worth turning over, china
... - 6. The Piper
No, he never led them far away,
willing as they were to follow
and not to go back.
The mountain never opened
... - 7. Scenario
Had enough of the old lonesome-and-blue scenario?
Up for a shot at the old I-love-you scenario?
Man enough to leave your comfort zone
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