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Decisions 2000 & 8

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Poems by Jakob Chapman

Table of Contents Introduction

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This is the place

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Maltzbier

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Europe

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Sixty watts

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Paint by numbers

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Cheetos

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Because I love you

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Decisions 2000 & 8

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String theory

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Tired of tires

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Sleepless morning of Abraham

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Gargoyle Sample: Hoshead Interactive

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swarm

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Only salivation

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Love, love, run!

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Jack-in-the-box

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Breast cancer

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Jolynn

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Loose change

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“little Milton”

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40 years

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Greener pastures

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Reading jane eyre

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Leave the foil on the floor

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Carthaginian bbq

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Rowboats

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Patriotic

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Dam

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Dam #2

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Amber

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Grow up

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Daily Excuses

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Opening old wounds

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DDS’s

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Know-it-alls

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Things to Tell Mom

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Bud

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To Margaritas

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Tater Gun

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Bohemian Afterthought

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For £s Remembered

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sleeping on the floor

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Nuclear Sudoku

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There is always Fear

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Decisions 2000 & 8 #2

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Toadstool in the Sky

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Afterward or epilogue?

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Introduction

he year 2008 was a year of decisions for a young poet who is trying to put together his life. This year marked my return to my birthplace, a change of Universities, not voting for a new president, meeting my wife, getting engaged to my wife, and eventually marring her (with a few days to spare!). Along with being a year of change, this year has been a year of poetry—images, words, and emotion. I decided to put together this collection of this year’s poetry (a few borrowed from 2007 and a couple put together in early 2009) when I wrote the association poem that became “Decisions 2000 & 8”. The name of the collection was not difficult to decide as I reviewed what I had written throughout the year. I decidedSample: to write a second poem withInteractive the same title to wrap up Hoshead the collection. It has beenfull interesting to watch this Please buy version at collection unfold. Hopefully it paints 2008 in its proper light, a www.jakobspoetrycorner.blogspot.com “clutch of difficultly easy decisions in a kaleidoscope of hope.” -Jakob Chapman

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This is the place Upon arriving home. this is the place where I sit on a bench and wait for a golf-cart this is the place where the sun shines and warms the January air this is the place where a new year of poetry begins reluctantly in public this is the place where people know my name because it is printed on my shirt in sharpie Sample: Hoshead Interactive in my own handwriting Please buy full version at and I smile at small girls www.jakobspoetrycorner.blogspot.com who wander from their young mothers and I wonder if it was really worth the effort to come and meet people I already casually knew back home who left and someone I knew years ago his name escapes me but I know it must be Lloyd because it is printed on his shirt in his own handwriting in sharpie this is the place where I am I could go back no questions asked several answers silently given but for now this is the place

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where I sit bench-side and wait and wait alone

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Malzbier An ode to the drink. crisp cold pop of the bottle cap rolls across the floor Monday evening tie undone hole in sock toe hanging out dew forming between fingers liquid bread Hoshead Interactive coldlySample: warming Please buy full version at my insides www.jakobspoetrycorner.blogspot.com big bang in my head unwinding the universe proclaiming truth wisdom in these words: “and barley for all useful animals and for mild drinks” peaceful risk foamy head eve of freedom

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have another then off to bed

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Europe After Jack Hirshman. I thought I would never grace the sod of old men’s dreams or historian’s playgrounds. Once was enough, waiting in the snow buses missed fields sown. Twice was too much, walking where Romans walked talking where bombs fell; since the war Sample: Hoshead Interactive everything’s late Please buy full version at www.jakobspoetrycorner.blogspot.com postponed until I get it right waiting until home is not home anymore Never again! a chuckle a whimper a crash and a sigh I left my mark on East Germany I tried to save the west I became a friend to the north Never again!

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Sixty Watts Upon witnessing a light go out. Bright smile at the flick of a switch. Softer glow, beaming, gleaming, sad to see her go. Distracting ray pulls me nearer. Lay down quickly in reluctant anticipation, and sleep in the spotlight. Flicker, flicker.

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Hide the hint of hesitation in the empty socket. Forget the longing for the light! Pretend to be content on being never completely satisfied, but ditch the warranty. Incandescent demon, angel riddling in the dark. Try again, screw it in, see if it will spark.

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Paint by Numbers Inspired by Lana Groa’s oil painting, “Catch the Rhythm, Join the Party” We paint in packs the way others might party (without parental “super-vision”) secretly splashing pigment on each other’s paintings when they are not paying attention. Distract a neighbor while the sable brush of another flicks a shower of sparkles, glittering globs of gold, Sample: Hoshead Interactive flying tincture murder, buy full version at or just aPlease bad case www.jakobspoetrycorner.blogspot.com of Montezuma’s revenge. And watch as the hand-guided maquillage blooms (like an atomic blusher), and drips down the oily foresail surface like a projectiled ovum accident caught on candid canvas. Join the party; play the blame game: who did what where as we regard

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the rumba’d rhythmicity of botched realism, and jive jovially toward artistic Platonism. Consider it foul (if you will call it anything at all) artistic sabotage mingled with mischievous multi-chromatic wrongdoing. But at least it is still recognizably abstract.

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Cheetos A reflection on the snack. orange fingers only the first three tips soft almost sticky bag in left hand fingers on the right can't say I'm sorry while eating more than 21 tonight indulge a little fun: Sample: Hoshead Interactive lick fingers clean Please buy full version at tomorrow

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