Shane Gannaway
7/27/2023
two armadillos with their butts together. dancing, looks like. and some scared, kid trying to catch a ball. or is he dunking? I can’t...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 26, 20231 min read
7/26/2023
I'll go to bed with you if you promise not to write. she said. and that is a poem, so what are you doing? she is headed down the hallway...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 25, 20231 min read
7/25/2023
ninety seven degrees on a clear one, and it’s almost the witching hour; noon night. next door the neighbors are having a prodigious...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 24, 20231 min read
7/24/2023
tapping out prosody with an empty tank – haha, this is how Orwell felt in Paris. the laugh must be forced. bread and wine and cigarettes....
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 24, 20231 min read
7/23/2023
found poetry goes like: “known ambassadors, blindly creating rules for unknown citizens of other worlds,” and “yes! I said ‘worlds.’ it...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 23, 20231 min read
7/22/2023
imagine a cow popping out a carton of milk, soft cardboard, covered in afterbirth, black-and -white speckled print over the box. then, on...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 22, 20231 min read
7/21/2023
near ‘record’ there’s a nother button an d you can hard ly make out the w o r d. i n fact, you cannot but, per haps it reads...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 20, 20231 min read
2/20/2023
‘work toward a goal,’ they said. the month falls away. another downed in summer heat. the seasons take their toll on everything. the...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 19, 20231 min read
7/19/2023
we will get some in. it is still early. the world has so much inside left to burn.
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 18, 20231 min read
7/18/2023
She said she wanted him to read them aloud. “I will not be taunted!” he silently vowed. And so he flaunted of those he was proud. Others...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 17, 20231 min read
7/17/2023
upon first bite: this sugar cookie isn’t doing anything good. second bite: oh, wow. wait, that wasn’t bad. that was nice. maybe the first...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 17, 20231 min read
7/ 16/2023
ping + soft sway + ribbit + machine learning + laugh + sky blue + puppy breath + syrup sting + mad discourse + duck legs + dance + liar...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 16, 20231 min read
7/15/2023
a snake with the face of a human stole it off a baby one dark moon. a man spies the devil’s face in a fan, cooling himself ‘gainst a...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 15, 20231 min read
7/14/2023
the poem is a script a way for us to be prompted we never like the lines we get but we enjoy the sound of them in another’s...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 13, 20231 min read
7/12/2023
“…it is just that the invisible man wants to live, much like the rest off us” he started to slur at the end there. and his tall barstool...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 13, 20231 min read
7/13/2023
at not too slow a pace, we enter: The Anthropocene, with eyes flashing and teeth gnashing, hands thrusting through the rush of the earth....
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 12, 20231 min read
7/11/2023
that old court was a graveyard. memories of dead matches scattered about the off white lines. all the while I think of you in a skirt,...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 10, 20231 min read
7/10/2023
“it’s a big world, and it’s all broken,” a teacher told a student “still, we must fight against cynicism,” the student remarked. “yes,...
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 10, 20231 min read
7/9/2023
pour puddles of each, soft honey & slow syrup. dip your piece; enjoy.
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Shane Gannaway
Jul 9, 20231 min read
7/8/2023
“tense tennis, man,” he teases tersely, sipping his espresso. staccato shots slapped across stately spots stadium side creates a careful...
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