Randy Stark

Three Poems

HER MOM ASKS ME TO GIVE THE BLESSING   Around the table, everybody Looking at me side-eye There’s this kind of almost Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. So I’m like Rub a dub dub Thanks for the grub. LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING RIGHT QUICK   Your choice of ringtone explains a lot about your style

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Power to Victory

What you’re gonna wanna do is you’re gonna wanna Discover your mystery points offer. Imagine a sort of utopia Way down in the middle of Mississippi. Build an advocacy tool kit. Take the lead. Give it time. Learn what it takes to Protect yourself from sunscald. Report abuse. Set the internet ablaze. Turn your thoughts

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I Give It To You

HERE’S A LITTLE SOMETHING I CALL   Discretion is for losers.     THIS ONE’S CALLED   I forgot you existed Until I saw you trending.     I’M LIKE LOOKING   Wait a minute—I know that dude.     WE MAKE TECH CUTE   Palos Verdes to Baton Rouge.     MY FAVORITE BUTTON

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Viral Thread

SAVINGS ALERT   The savings are heating up.     ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE   Seeking sinus pain relief At the hot service deli.     CASH BACK   Automatically.     QUIET CAR   On Saturdays, it kind of goes out the window.     TOILET PAPER POKER   I’ll see you a roll And raise

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Sonnet

Sonnet of Selected First Lines that Begin with “The” (from the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley) The gentleness of rain was in the wind. The babe is at peace within the womb. The billows on the beach are leaping around it. The Elements respect their Maker’s seal. The fiery mountains answer each other.

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Shop Talk, August 2021

W.B. Yeats wrote about “the sedentary toil of creative art.” And T.S. Eliot added: ‘And indeed there will be time   To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”’ Marcus Aurelius starts his Meditations by thanking his family, friends, and teachers, and then explains how he was influenced by them; it was from one

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Three poems

SONGBIRDS IN THE ORCHARD   Wings flapping, vibraslapping, Sputtering and snorting like horses, Neighing, whinnying, and nickering, Tsk-tsk-ing, squeaking, snapping, squealing, scolding, Songbirds are just fussy squeeze toys.     HIGHLIGHT REEL   Endgame persona. Pull some lingo over. Metrics. Pleats, wrinkles. Glowering sun. Rainbow reveal.   But plus things For awhile there Got crazy.

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Not Everyone

Everything. Major thirds and minor thirds. L-shaped and X-rated. Drunken noodles. Sun-bleached songbirds. Pink and white sweetpeas. Nonrevocable motions to censure. Wagering homes. Acme Roofing. Jeep Wagoneer.   Drop ins of brilliance. Over the top content. A pyramid of pyrite. Disrobed sound. Boyfriend shorts. Scratches in a hard wood floor. A badge and a heart

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Outing

FEEL FREE TO WRITE MY BIOGRAPHY   Just leave me out of it.     WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?   He yelled at me. In Spanish.     SANCTIONS   Always sweeping, ever so stiff.     IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE VIEWING THIS EMAIL   You deserve more from your points.     THE

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