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The Quick & The Dead
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras 1. “The Quick and The Dead” From out of nowhere, Smart lizard darts Onto hot deadly stretch Of killer asphalt, Grabs stupid grass- Hopper’s ass before Coolly high- Tailing…
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How to Finish off a Pretentious, Long-Winded Poem by Executing a Less Windy One
How to Finish off a Pretentious, Long-Winded Poem by Executing a Less Windy One VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras 1. “Artsy Fugitive Dream Sequence Riddled with Hyperbolic Quasi-Literary Figures of Speech, Take circa 2002”…
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Four Poems Inspired by My Not-So-Innocent Childhood in Small Town America
VazamBam By Vassilis Zambaras 1. “Bell of the Ball, Raymond, Washington, circa 1950” Take it from me, sweetie Way back then, First Street Was chock-full of taverns, Booze joints and cathouses, But nothing…
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Introducing the Apophthegmata* of Huuklyeand Cinquor (with Comments by Vazambam)
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras 1. “Hukklyeand Cinquor on Myopia and its Existential Problems” Dude, I know it’s tough being The butt of ugly jokes But look at it this way, man—…
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The Three Stages of the World According to Monsanto
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras 1. “Bad Seed” It kept well, conserved In the niggard’s dark pantry, Till prosperity undid the latch, And off it went spoiling, Spilling into the light, To be preserved…
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Let’s Begin Poetry Appreciation 2011 With A Bang:
Two Poems Containing The ‘****’ Word Seven Times VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Bukowski# Strikes Again” Goddammit— There is and there is not A right way to write A poem— Which is like saying…
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Zanna, Hello and Goodbye, 6:30 a.m.” My friend, The young Kurd who works A daily twelve-hour shift At the local service station, Has been on duty long before daybreak,…
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The Four Seasons in Brief
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “Bookmark, Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams” From dry fragile still fragrant yellow- green stalks & leaves placed between the descent of winter & the locust tree in flower stems the scent of spring. “Body…
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Invasion of the Snail People et al
VazamBam By Vassilis Zambaras “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute” Believe it or not, I read somewhere* that Some land snails can Lift ten times their weight Up a vertical surface; So if…
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After The Birds, The IMF
VazamBam by Vassilis Zambaras “After Archilochos” buggered Ly[kambes’] promises [perforated] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…