More Opened Locks

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2 min readJan 2, 2018

I still have forty locked poems. Here are twenty more opened for all to see. One more post after this should open them all. Enjoy.

Aphasic Heteronym

“Who speaks for the speaker?”

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Behind The Mirror

Ever the lady, she neatly weaves the tattered threads of her torn life into a pattern of false smiles, displayed…

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Before You Were Nothing

A man of no fortune with a name to come.

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Get Rich Quick! (Product Ideas…)

Give the suckers what they want. PT Barnum

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After An Affair

Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.

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Composition

Be a beautiful loser of life.

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Manifesto

not so much writing as stuttering, he said. no matter. The whole always false. donut. only the peace meal may be milled…

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Seventh Sacrament

Get married in the Church of Magic.

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Surrealistic Pillows Refluffed: A Drama Without Acts

For Carlos Fuentes…

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Geisteswissenschaft

A light to face the black night engendering uncertain sight.

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Tombstone Blues

Send me dead flowers…

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A Good Day In Spookville Redux

Author’s Note: I don’t write much fiction. I wrote this a while ago, and have revised it many times. It was posted on…

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The Good Death Of Captain William Strong Eagle

He was a Huey pilot. I didn’t know him well. I was only twenty. He was the first Indian I had ever met though he…

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Demented Santa Staggers On

The past is a bag we drag around like some demented Santa’s sack.

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Words Worlds Whirl

“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go” E.E. Cummings

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More Opened Locks

Aphasic Heteronym

“Who speaks for the speaker?”

Behind The Mirror

Ever the lady, she neatly weaves the tattered threads of her torn life into a pattern of false smiles, displayed…

Before You Were Nothing

A man of no fortune with a name to come.

Get Rich Quick! (Product Ideas…)

Give the suckers what they want. PT Barnum

After An Affair

Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.

Composition

Be a beautiful loser of life.

Manifesto

not so much writing as stuttering, he said. no matter. The whole always false. donut. only the peace meal may be milled…

Seventh Sacrament

Get married in the Church of Magic.

Surrealistic Pillows Refluffed: A Drama Without Acts

For Carlos Fuentes…

Geisteswissenschaft

A light to face the black night engendering uncertain sight.

Tombstone Blues

Send me dead flowers…

A Good Day In Spookville Redux

Author’s Note: I don’t write much fiction. I wrote this a while ago, and have revised it many times. It was posted on…

The Good Death Of Captain William Strong Eagle

He was a Huey pilot. I didn’t know him well. I was only twenty. He was the first Indian I had ever met though he…

Demented Santa Staggers On

The past is a bag we drag around like some demented Santa’s sack.

Words Worlds Whirl

“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go” E.E. Cummings

Over And Out

You know it’s over. Your shoes have walked away. Your phone dives deeply into the pit of despair. Cigarettes become…

Wander To Wonders

Thauma

Unweaving The Wyrd

Omnis in hic sum…

Unlikely Clocks Running Backwards

Time fries…

Written by Mike Essig