Proverbs Part 2: Outtakes

Over the course of editing a manuscript, there are inherently things that need to be removed. Even if not necessarily “bad,” if something doesn’t quite fit into the bigger picture of a project, there’s no reason to hold onto it. These are a few excerpts that I’ve decided won’t make the cut for the upcoming book of poetry, Proverbs, but were too good to discard without sharing first. You can read the first part of this preview to the official book release here. Things have already changed since when I wrote Part 1, believing the manuscript was in essentially its finished form. It’s amazing how you can think you’re so close to something, but in reality be so far.

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Life for life

Stuck on the ass 

Gumshoes Trumped off the table

By those Nakano Broadway players

Exchanging currency for capital

One good look’sa stare

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Slipping heavenbound, feet up

Crown balanced like a top

Spun ’round the plastic

Fourth-grade birthday stadium

Sexless sleepover

Let down(,) but(t) not out

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Told you're maybe idiotic complimentarily

By an intellectual date 

Referring to the Greeks

Most ancient self-

Obsessed morons 

Fear polyrhythmic thought patterns

Internal drum   

Beating acquiescence

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Stay tuned for further updates and sneak peeks at Proverbs and other upcoming books from Shy City House. In addition to Proverbs, we’re working on putting out two other genre-bending books late 2021/early 2022.