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lucky-0015_dem as kafka_mashup_impressionism – potential book cover

Posted onFebruary 25, 2020 By admindavid

i was just playin, i already used another from this series of photos of DEM as Kafka in Prague by … Continue Readinglucky-0015_dem as kafka_mashup_impressionism – potential book cover

end papers for max nix

Posted onFebruary 25, 2020 By admindavid

max-nix-linear-a, max-nix-linear-b … Continue Reading >end papers for max nix

scrubs & knobs

Posted onFebruary 23, 2020 By admindavid

in the morning in small-town Texas
some kids arrived before grade school
I don’t know what they did with the girls
but the boys played scrub
to keep out of mischief
… Continue Reading >scrubs & knobs

We face an Age of Dis-con-tin-uity

Posted onFebruary 22, 2020 By admindavid

automatons maintaining
the automatons maintaining
the automatons doing the job
… Continue Reading >We face an Age of Dis-con-tin-uity

die unmögliche bild

Posted onFebruary 22, 2020 By admindavid

“Our memory is so unreliable – sometimes what we see might as well be the future.” … Continue Reading >die unmögliche bild

How like life it is!

Posted onFebruary 20, 2020 By admindavid

now that I have had my second hole-in-one
now that I have had a week to think on it
a cold, wet, winter week in the hill country
when I did not play again
even tho’ I’m bustin’ to get out again
and make another ace
even tho’ my other’n was 20 years ago
… Continue Reading >How like life it is!

contra impudentem nimia ingenuitas stulta est

Posted onFebruary 16, 2020 By admindavid

your old-fashioned manners’re become obsolete
your petty concerns don’t matter anymore
your high-minded ideals no longer compete
– the annals of forgotten lore
… Continue Reading >contra impudentem nimia ingenuitas stulta est

the world is a comedy tho those that think, a tragedy to those that feel

Posted onFebruary 11, 2020 By admindavid

not for nuthin’, today, 2/11/2020, the prosecutors of Roger Stone resigned over interference from the administration . . . … Continue Reading >the world is a comedy tho those that think, a tragedy to those that feel

from now on you cannot say “I did not know”

Posted onFebruary 10, 2020 By admindavid

From now on you cannot say “I did not know”,
oh, no! you cannot act as if it does not show,
you cannot pretend ever-y-thing is normal,
‘a little less formal

… Continue Reading >from now on you cannot say “I did not know”

Rupi Kaur would go “here”

Posted onFebruary 6, 2020March 29, 2020 By admindavid

a) if what she wrote were not total crap, or,
b) if Poetry Org wasn’t a bunch of insular, naval-gazing dweebs . . .
perhaps, then, a demonstration that the Red Stripe is not an universal panacea … Continue Reading >Rupi Kaur would go “here”

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David E. Matthews

David E. Matthews is a failed poet based in Warwick, RI. Read more

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  • About David E. Matthews
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Books of Poetry

  • The Emily Dickinson Bee Towel Catalog
  • pffft! – a Poly-eFFable-Fungible Token Catalog
  • Fulsome Times
  • Max Nix
  • Opus In Progressu
  • American Bughouse / Left with Ludwig
  • Cantos Poesia
  • Traum von dem Gescheitert Dichter
  • beyond:
  • v1
  • Walk With Me
  • Back to Confucius
  • Better Late Than Never—Sez Who?
  • My S-Word: 1972 – 1999
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