• Po'try, Rob Plath

    Posted on March 25th, 2009

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    may butterflies rise from yr grave every year(for garcia lorca)

    may butterflies rise from yr grave every year(for garcia lorca)

    by Rob Plath
    a soldier pumped
    two bullets
    into yr buttocks
    for being a queer
    then another
    into the branches
    of yr lung
    for being
    a poet
    another word
    for dirty communist
    to them
    you were their worst enemy
    w/unplugged asshole
    & wide open singing
    lung bags
    i imagine yr
    assassin bragging
    about it afterwards
    to his comrades
    then later that night
    giving his wife a good
    hetero fascist fuck
    his dick standing like
    a middle finger
    to commie faggot poets
    his [...]

  • Po'try, Rob Plath

    Posted on March 23rd, 2009

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    the untouched ones by Rob Plath

    the untouched ones by Rob Plath

    by Rob Plath
    only the ones
    untouched by tragedy
    slap platitudes
    onto the bumpers
    of their cars
    ones that read:
    shit happens
    etc…
    you’d never
    see that on
    the back of a
    paraplegic’s
    wheelchair
    or a cancer
    patient’s bed
    near the dangling
    clipboard
    no one would
    press one of those
    cheap bullshit sayings
    down onto
    their colostomy bag
    riding on their hip
    no, those sayings
    are for those untouched
    by tragedy
    but oh how i wish their
    cliche would turn literal on their [...]