Verse Noir: Expanded Edition
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If a mutant offspring of Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith had written fortune cookies, the result would be Verse Noir. The original edition, published in 2010, was a minimalist masterpiece. Its 77 brief poems—the shortest was only three words long—delivered concentrated doses of sex, violence, and existential angst. This expanded edition doubles the size of the original collection, adding 76 new poems to the mix. If you are a fan of noir but not of poetry, Verse Noir will make you a fan of noir poetry. This is noir in its purest, distilled form.
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Verse Noir - David Rachels
Monkeys
If you put
One million monkeys
In a room with
One million typewriters
Sooner than you think
The monkeys will use
Those typewriters to
Kill each other.
Setting
The kidney-stoned sky
Squeezed out the rain
One drop at a time
While the wind howled
The pain of the clouds.
Vocabulary
There are words
I have seen
But know not
What they mean:
Pagoda.
Itinerary.
Nuance.
Philatelist.
Penultimate.
Adirondack.
Mercy.
Dad
For my twelfth birthday
My old man gave me
A pair of brass knuckles
That were not really brass
And two issues of Playboy
Missing their centerfolds.
He called it a scholarship.
Hate
If I do not
Hate you
Then you are
Still alive.
Promise
A promise is
A down payment on
A lie.
Experience
People who think
That yelling and screaming
Are the same thing
Have never screamed.
Ambition
At first
My ambition
Was to live
To see thirty.
Later
My ambition
Was