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Goals

Posted on 2022/11/30 by Bartholomew Barker

Goals Watching men from Ecuador and Senegalplay football in Qatar from a bar in Irelandthis poet from the United Statesacknowledges his decadence. Fortune kissed my forehead at birthwhen I came out white, straight and malein America. I can take my … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on 2022/11/24 by Bartholomew Barker

The Fourth Thursday in November Laughter rolls in from outside where cousins play Laughter bakes into the cornbread where cooks gossip Crying onions bubbling gravy crackling turkey All parade to the table where we hold hands in fidgety anticipation As … Continue reading →

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3 Experiments That Prove The World Is Flat Poetically

Posted on 2022/11/14 by Bartholomew Barker

My car is jealous of poetry because it fills the garage. Rickety card tables and milk crates are covered with beakers, books and Bunsen burners bubbling away useless words. My hands shake as I pour reagents, mixing the smoothest line … Continue reading →

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Blue Magick

Posted on 2022/11/07 by Bartholomew Barker

Blue Magick I call upon the spirits of light, the angels of constitutional democracy, of reasonable policy based upon science, I humbly beseech you: Arise! Cast out the demons of fear and corruption. Break the curse of lies, hatred and … Continue reading →

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While Exploring Le Musée des Arcanes

Posted on 2022/10/31 by Bartholomew Barker

While Exploring Le Musée des Arcanes His eyes follow me around the cluttered room,this portrait of a man from another century—painted by a skilled hand, fine brushstrokesthough the artist neither signed the worknor identified their subject. I gaze into his … Continue reading →

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Halloween Television

Posted on 2022/10/25 by Bartholomew Barker

Trick or Treaters have appeared not at my door but on TV The Democrats wearing scary masks faces twisted and darkened With Republicans in happy family man costumes pure as a newborn lamb in fresh fallen snow I’ve tried throwing … Continue reading →

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Working the Polls

Posted on 2022/10/17 by Bartholomew Barker

Working the Polls Let’s install a pole in the Capitol so our Congressmen can do their tricks like strippers in a dank club, teasing and tantalizing their base. The esteemed Senator from Exxon Mobil slinks out of his suit and … Continue reading →

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With Each Passing Year

Posted on 2022/09/27 by Bartholomew Barker

With Each Passing Year Food loses its flavor.The sun gets dimmer,the atmosphere thinner.I can’t catch my breath. The Earth’s molten coreis spinning slower like a topwobbling— I feel gravity tiltbeneath my feet as I walk. Years fly by fasterthan months … Continue reading →

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Confirmation Bias

Posted on 2022/09/20 by Bartholomew Barker

Confirmation Biasor We All Go To Heaven The council of my inner voicevotes and the tally showsI’m still mostly a good guy. I rarely renege on promises,shoplift from the liquor storeor cheat on my girlfriends. But they’ve spent years craftingthis … Continue reading →

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Eye of the Beholder

Posted on 2022/09/13 by Bartholomew Barker

Eye of the Beholder Metal tongs pull a slice of prime ribonto my plate at the buffet.I notice a brunette at another tableand avoid staring at her legs. Turkey buzzards cluster around a fallen doelike little stout Deaths in feathered … Continue reading →

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