Treehouse

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Maisons Closes

For prostitutes there,
no act was impossible,
except, of course, love.

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Al Contrario

What passions weave,
by reason is undone,
the Pope wrote Pope.

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Avant le Déluge

Fat tails and bubbles.
Traders scoff at kurtosis.
Black swans crane their necks.

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Oscar Wilde

After 20 years of love, a man feels like a king;
after 20 years of marriage, he feels like a queen.

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Equality

In a truly inclusive, multicultural America, everyone will feel marginalized.

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Tsk-tsk

t’s th lngst wrd
wtht vwls n nglsh.
Lks Rssn, thgh, dsn’t t?

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Chicago Style

Cat fog
Shoulders
14.34 Metaphor

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Brooklyn Semordnilap

Yo! Oy!

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O’Hara

Hey, Lana!
Don’t get up.
You’re content.

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Dorothy Parker

If the masses are asses
And some asses are massive
Boy, I fear the greenhouse gasses

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Rebuttal to Rebuttals of Robert Frost’s Rebuttal of Free Verse

Tennis without a net may be difficult but only because it is no longer tennis.

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Empathy

If you fear you’re a sociopath, you’re not.

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Sign [Found] Inside Le Trapeze,
A Sex Club in Manhattan

Please Keep
Torso Covered
Near Buffet Table

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Nick D’Annunzio Jones lives and writes in Seattle. He is a former reporter for The New York Times and has published poetry in numerous journals in the United States, Ireland, Sweden and Australia.

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