Fortunately
this experience gives you
the experience required
to survive
this experience.
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Rachel McAlpine
Phone poems
Comfort noise
Hello? Hello?
After you hang up
your obsolete handpiece
after you go,
comfort noise
swells through the holes.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poem in a phone
Squash a sonnet
to a pellet
with a mallet.
Did it!
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Rachel McAlpine
Longevity
If you want eternal life
don’t be a human
or a web site.
Be
a sea
anemone.
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Rachel McAlpine
Yard by yard
Yard by yard
it’s hard.
Inch by inch
a cinch.
You’re in pursuit
of happiness
but happiness
is running after you.
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Rachel McAlpine
Say less
Say less.
Mean more.
Win the match.
Lose the score.
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Rachel McAlpine
A useful tip
When in doubt
do something
that you’ve done before.
When in pain
do something
that you’ll never do again.
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Rachel McAlpine
Come out
Come out
of your corporate corner
into
the arena of song.
How beautiful
to be alive.
How insoluble
to be.
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Rachel McAlpine
Everything you do
Everything you do
is very, very good
and very very good
is good enough.
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Rachel McAlpine
Red trees
But still we freeze.
For weeks the weather
has bullied and teased.
We are displeased
but fully woollied.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 