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Aardvark Planet

The aardvark
Is a small animal
Which lives on the first page of the dictionary,
Where there is nothing to eat
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1973 "Inspiration" - inspiration online English poetry read free - published in NZ Home Journal - publication date 1973. [This year may be wrong though the poem was definitely first published in the early 1970s.] First appeared online when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 17 Saturday. Copyright © 1972, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1975 "Grafton in Spring" - spring online English poetry read free springonline English poetry read free - nature online English poetry read free - published in City News - publication date 1975 October 29. (Auckland, New Zealand). Copyright © 1975, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1975 "Tellos" - moon online English poetry read free - published in Te Maarama, the literary magazine of the Auckland University Students Association. (Auckland, New Zealand) (page 14). First posted online 2004 May 21 Friday. Copyright © 1975, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1975 "Kafka Country" - sunny day online English poetry read free - published in Te Maarama, the literary magazine of the Auckland University Students Association. (Auckland, New Zealand) (page 14). First posted online 2004 May 21 Friday. Copyright © 1975, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1975 "Bitumen Man" - hot road online English poetry read free - published in Te Maarama, the literary magazine of the Auckland University Students Association. (Auckland, New Zealand) (page 15). First posted online 2004 May 21 Friday. Copyright © 1975, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1976 "Cicada Sun" - surfing online English poetry read free - high school online English poetry read free - highschool online English poetry read free - online English poetry read free written by a teeanger - adolescence online English poetry read free - published in Landfall Number 118 (Volume 30 Number 2) June 1976 (ed. Peter Smart)(Christchurch, New Zealand) (pages 131-136). Copyright © 1976, 2002 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1976 "Sonnet" - sonnet online English poetry read free - oil refinery online English poetry read free - was first published in Craccum (the newspaper of the Auckland University Students Association) in Auckland, New Zealand under the title "Gull Flight". Publication date: 1976 June 8. It was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 05 Saturday. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1976 "Somewhere Far From the Sea" - school bus online English poetry read free - published in Craccum 8 June 1976 (Auckland, New Zealand). First posted on the Internet on 2 March 2003. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1976 "Wide Windows" - morning online English poetry read free - published in Craccum 8 June 1976 (Auckland, New Zealand). First posted on the Internet on 18 July 2003. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1976 "The Face Fearful" - hypochondria online English poetry read free - published in Craccum 10 September 1976 (Auckland, New Zealand). First posted on the Internet on 18 July 2003. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (A note about the 1976 publication date: Hugh Cook says "My records are in some disarray. I am certain of the year but not of the month or the day.")

1976 "Monsoon" - monsoon online English poetry read free - published in Craccum 10 September 1976 (Auckland, New Zealand). First posted on the Internet on 18 July 2003. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (A note about the 1976 publication date: Hugh Cook says "My records are in some disarray. I am certain of the year but not of the month or the day.")

1976 "Toward Ten O'Clock" - city at night online English poetry read free - urban online English poetry read free - urban life online English poetry read free - published in Chaff, a student newspaper published in New Zealand, 13 September 1976. First posted on the Internet on 20 September 2003. Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1977 "Threnody" - son leaves home online English poetry read free - published in Craccum, 1977 June 5. First posted on the Internet by on 2003 December 13 Saturday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1977 "Dreams of Lothlorien" - city online English poetry read free - fever online English poetry read free - published in Craccum, 1977 June 5. First posted on the Internet by on 2003 September 20 Saturday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1977 "The Kraken Wakes" - kraken online English poetry read free - was first published in Craccum (the newspaper of the Auckland University Students Association) in Auckland, New Zealand. Publication date: 1977 June 5. It was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 March 18 Tuesday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1977  "Men Without Amnesty" - torture online English poetry read free - torturer online English poetry read free - torturers online English poetry read free - was first published in Craccum, Auckland, New Zealand. Publication date: 1977 June 27. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 19 Wednesday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. This is a poem about torture and torturers.

1977  "The Whale" - whale online English poetry read free - was first published in Craccum, Auckland, New Zealand. Publication date: 1977 June 25. First posted on the Internet on 2003 September 21 Sunday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1977  "Dissection: An Opossum" - dissection online English poetry read free - opossum online English poetry read free - dead animal online English poetry read free - a dissection poem - was first published in Craccum, Auckland, New Zealand. Publication date: 1977 June 25. First posted on the Internet on 2003 September 27 Saturday. Copyright © 1977, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "Still Life" - young men online English poetry read free - published in Craccum (the newspaper of the Auckland University Students Association), in Auckland, New Zealand, in March 1978. Copyright © 1978, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978 "His Dragon World" - dinosaur online English poetry read free - published in Chaff (the newspaper of the Massey University Students Association) in New Zealand, 1978 March 22. First posted online on 2004 January 31. Copyright © 1978, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "Sodium Thiosulphate" - chemistry lab online English poetry read free - laboratory online English poetry read free - science online English poetry read free - studying science online English poetry read free - sodium thiosulphate online English poetry read free - learning about chemistry online English poetry read free - chemistry online English poetry read free - published in Koreru in June of 1978. First posted online on 2003 September 27 Saturday. Copyright © 1978, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "Surf Sea" - surf online English poetry read free - surfing online English poetry read free - published in Koreru in June of 1978. First posted online on 2004 January 10 Saturday. Copyright © 1978, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "Vigil Involuntary" - insomnia online English poetry read free - can't sleep online English poetry read free - published in Craccum 1978 September 19. First posted online on 2004 January 24 Saturday. Copyright © 1978, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "Waking for the Watchguard"  - house at night online English poetry read free - first published in Bright But Invisible, the literary magazine of the Auckland University Students Association, 1978. (ed. Jeremy Bartlett)(Auckland, New Zealand) (page 43). First posted online 2004 January 31 Saturday. Copyright © 1978, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1978  "This is a Pistol"  - pistol online English poetry read free - shooting range online English poetry read free - gun online English poetry read free - firing weapon online English poetry read free - target practice online English poetry read free - use of weapons online English poetry read free - first published in Bright But Invisible, the literary magazine of the Auckland University Students Association, 1978. (ed. Jeremy Bartlett)(Auckland, New Zealand) (page 44). First posted online 2004 February 15 Sunday. Copyright © 1978, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Showtime" - cancer online English poetry read free - TV show online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 March 26. First posted on the Internet on 2005 May 21 Saturday. Copyright © 1979, 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "The Fish" - fish online English poetry read free - very short fish online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 March 12. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 21 Friday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Van Gough" - Van Gough online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 March 12. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 21 Friday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979  "A Mantra" - rifle online English poetry read free - gun online English poetry read free - shooting online English poetry read free - military online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 March 26. First posted on the Internet on 2003 August 17 Sunday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Camouflage" - camouflage online English poetry read free - military online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 April 10. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 21 Friday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Test Pattern" urban life online English poetry read free - insect online English poetry read free - imaginative online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 April 10. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 21 Friday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Sunflower" - love online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 April 10. First posted on the Internet on 2003 March 21 Friday. Copyright © 1979, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1979 "Return to the City" - lonely city online English poetry read free - lonely life online English poetry read free - published in Craccum in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1979 April 23. First posted on the Internet on 2004 January 24 Saturday. Copyright © 1979, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1980 "Sphinx Child" - short cat online English poetry read free - published in Outrigger Volume Four Number Three, May 1980 (ed. Tim Pickford)(Auckland, New Zealand) (page 92). First appeared online when posted on the zenvirus.com site by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 1980, 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1980 "Out Fishing" - fishing online English poetry read free - father and son online English poetry read free - fatherson online English poetry read free - boat online English poetry read free - published in Outrigger Volume Four Number Three, May 1980 (ed. Tim Pickford)(Auckland, New Zealand) (page 93). First appeared online when posted on the zenvirus.com site by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 1980, 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1980 "Dragon Tale" - radio static online English poetry read free - published in Outrigger Volume Four Number Three, May 1980 (ed. Tim Pickford)(Auckland, New Zealand) (page 94). First appeared online when posted on the zenvirus.com site by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 1980, 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1986  "I Remember" - remembering online English poetry read free - nuclear war online English poetry read free - nuclearwar online English poetry read free - war menace online English poetry read free - memories of the past online English poetry read free - published in Craccum (the newspaper of the Auckland University Students Association), in Auckland, New Zealand, in (at a guess) 1986. Hugh says: "I have the original newsprint somewhere, but where I have no idea. Should it come to light, I will post the precise publication details here." Copyright © 1986, 2002 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

1987  "Helen of Troy" - Helen online English poetry read free - HelenofTroy online English poetry read free - Helen of Troy online English poetry read free - Helen Paris online English poetry read free - Paris elopes with Helen online English poetry read free - partially published under the title "Troy" in Musings (Massey University's Literary Magazine) 1987 (ISSN 0112-9449) ed. Ewen Coker) (Massey University, New Zealand) (pages 16-26). The 1987 version takes us as far as "She knows that he will have her, and knows how." The longer version on this website first appeared online in 2000. Copyright © 1987, 2000 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2000  "The Death of Nestor" - death online English poetry read free - Nestor online English poetry read free - death of old warrior online English poetry read free - death in old age online English poetry read free - published in Icarus Ascending No. #1 Fall/Winter 2000-2001 (ed. Deborah Shepard)(Cazenovia, United States) (page 12). Copyright © 2000 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2002 "The fireworks are numb" - shock online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com in 2002. Copyright © 2002 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2002 "The quality of glass is light" - lust online English poetry read free - physical desire online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com in 2002. Copyright © 2002 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003 "Waterfall" - water fall online English poetry read free - waterfall online English poetry read free - moving water online English poetry read free - water online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 January 31 Friday. 29 lines. Nature poem. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003 "Dreamscape With Giraffes" - dream online English poetry read free dreaming online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 February 19 Wednesday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003 "Sex Metal" - war online English poetry read free - war protest online English poetry read free - antiwar online English poetry read free - napalm online English poetry read free - child in war online English poetry read free - children in war online English poetry read free - child victim online English poetry read free - childern as war's victims online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 March 02 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003 "Freeze Frames" - Cold War online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 March 02 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003 The Death of Patroclus, - Patroclus online English poetry read free - death in battle online English poetry read free - warzone death online English poetry read free - a poem about death in battle, first appeard when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 March 19 Wednesday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Wounded, Not Yet Dead" - wounded online English poetry read free - battle wounded online English poetry read free - casualties of war online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on Hugh Cook's website zenvirus.com on 2003 March 19 Wednesday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Zenvirus" - dada online English poetry read free - incoherent online English poetry read free - weird online English poetry read free - bizarre online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 March 26 Wednesday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. This parabonlononomical poem by Hugh Cook is a totally irresponsible poem in the dada tradition - but remember that just because the poem is nuts doesn't mean that the world at large is sane.

2003  "Making Peace With Bombs" - war online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 March 27 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "A Day in the Life of a War" - Iraq war online English poetry read free - Iraqwar online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 7 Monday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Desolter" - emotional stress online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Cherry Blossom, April 2003" - cherry blossom online English poetry read free written in a time of war - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Waves" - deserted battlefield online English poetry read free - war's aftermath online English poetry read free - aftermath of war online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "The Drafting of Odysseus" - Odysseus online English poetry read free - draft online English poetry read free - drafting online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Odysseus on Delos" - sacred moment online English poetry read free - Delos online English poetry read free -first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Nausica" - Nausica online English poetry read free - tales of war online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Warpoets" - warpoets online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 April 17 Thursday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Fragments" - physical relationship online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 May 06 Tuesday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Nine Steps to California" - California online English poetry read free - prose poem online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 June 22 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Proze Poem" - prose poem online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook in 2003. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "A Fireman Writes" - prejudice online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 05 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Memory Flight" - sonnet online English poetry read free - online English poetry read free with notes - oil refinery online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 05 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note that this is a revised version of a 1976 poem; the original poem is on the same page.)

2003  "Coming Into Harbour" - death online English poetry read free - grandfather's death online English poetry read free - death in old age online English poetry read free - deaht online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 18 Friday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note: this poem was actually composed back in the Twentieth Century, at least twenty years before the date of publication.)

2003  "Tonga" - Tonga online English poetry read free - Third World online English poetry read free - medical mission online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 19 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note: this poem was actually composed back in the 1970s, many years before the date of publication.)

2003  "Snails" - snail online English poetry read free - snails online English poetry read free - snailsonline English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 19 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note: this poem was actually composed back in the 1970s, many years before the date of publication.)

2003  "A Short Poem" - shortpoem online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 19 Saturday. Slightly revised version posted online 2004 June 25. Copyright © 2003, 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note: the first version of this poem was actually composed back in the 1970s, many years before the date of publication.)

2003  "Petition for a Flat Earth" - conservatism online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 19 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved. (Note: this poem was actually composed back in the 1970s, many years before the date of publication. It is conceivably possible that this poem was in fact first published in the 1970s. However, if so, then the author does not have any record of the publication details.)

2003  "This Working Life" - daily stress online English poetry read free - working life online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 27 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "I Am A Television Set" - consumer of spectacles online English poetry read free - media customer online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 27 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Poised Between Limbo And Guantanamo" - Guantanamo online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 27 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Sun Poem" sun online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 July 27 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Mozart the Fish" - a pregnancy poem - pregnant online English poetry read free - pregnancy online English poetry read free - unborn child online English poetry read free - unbornchild online English poetry read free - pregnant woman online English poetry read free - pregnantwoman online English poetry read free - being pregnant online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 September 21 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Dragon" - a dragon poem - dragon online English poetry read free - dragononline English poetry read free - visionary dragon online English poetry read free - imaginative dragon online English poetry read free - imaginary dragon online English poetry read free - first appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 October 05 Sunday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Spam" - poem about spam. - spam online English poetry read free - imaginative spam online English poetry read free - First appeared when it was posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 October 11 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "Nightmare" - nightmare poem. - nightmare online English poetry read free - nightmareonline English poetry read free - night mare online English poetry read free - baddream online English poetry read free - bad dream online English poetry read free - First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 October 18 Saturday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2003  "The Erasure of Certainty" - globalization poem. - change online English poetry read free - pace of change online English poetry read free - globalisation online English poetry read free - globalization online English poetry read free - First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2003 October 27 Monday. Copyright © 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Genesis"  - Creation poem. - genesis online English poetry read free - creation online English poetry read free - First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 3 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Adam"  - Adam online English poetry read free - AdamAndEve online English poetry read free - - expulsion from Paradise online English poetry read free - Adam leaves Eden poem. First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 3 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Lilith"  - Lilith poem. - Lilith online English poetry read free - First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 3 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Senility of a Scholar"  - senility poem. - senility online English poetry read free - First appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 10 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "White Water"  - river poem. - river online English poetry read free - riveronline English poetry read free - water online English poetry read free - This poem was written some time in the 1980s but was first published when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 10 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "First Kiss"  - teenage life poem. - firstkiss online English poetry read free - kiss online English poetry read free - first kiss online English poetry read free - This poem was written some time in the 1970s but was first published when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 17 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Power cut"  - power outage online English poetry read free - power cut online English poetry read free - a very short poem written some time in the 1970s but first published when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 24 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Stars in Spring"  - spring online English poetry read free - blossom online English poetry read free - a very short blossom poem written some time in the 1970s but first published when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 24 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Warpoem"  - surreal online English poetry read free - surreal war online English poetry read free - a short surreal war poem which first appeared when posted on the Internet by Hugh Cook on 2004 January 24 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "The Death of Achilles" - death Achilles online English poetry read free - death in war online English poetry read free - death in battle online English poetry read free - this Trojan war poem first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 January 31 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Coral Islands" - coral online English poetry read free - coral island online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 February 14 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Poem Written by a Dead Poet" - dead poet online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 February 28 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Expanded Nights" - drunk online English poetry read free - drunken online English poetry read free - intoxicated online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 February 28 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Nightmoon Sea" - night online English poetry read free nightsea online English poetry read free moon online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 February 28 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Graffiti" - graffiti online English poetry read free - grafiti online English poetry read free - graffitionline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 February 28 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Breastfeeding" - breast feeding online English poetry read free - breastfeeding online English poetry read free - breastfeedingonline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 April 29 Thursday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Levitational Hedgehogs" - imperial power online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 05 Wednesday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Birth on Planet Gravity" - birth online English poetry read free - difficult birth online English poetry read free - birthonline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 06 Thursday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "I am a Driftfish" - unmotivated online English poetry read free - lack of motivation online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 08 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Leashpet" - BDSM online English poetry read free - Justine online English poetry read free - Sadean online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 10 Monday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "On the Highways of Intellectual Ecstasy" - intellectual arrogance online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 21 Friday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "A Red Wheelbarrow" - wheelbarrow online English poetry read free - red wheelbarrow online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 June 27 Sunday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Aardvark Planet" - aardvark online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 July 4 Sunday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "My Baby Daughter" - baby online English poetry read free - baby daughter online English poetry read free - babydaughteronline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 July 19 Monday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Sleeping Naked Alone" - naked online English poetry read free - sleeping online English poetry read free - sleeping naked online English poetry read free - loneliness online English poetry read free - lonelines at night online English poetry read free - lonely night online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 September 04 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2004  "Death" - death online English poetry read free - deathonline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 November 20 Saturday. Copyright © 2004 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "In the Ruins of my Collapsed Life" - personal disaster online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 1 Friday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Arc of Light" - mortality online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Chemotherapy"  - chemo online English poetry read free - chemotherapy online English poetry read free - chemotherapy patient online English poetry read free - chemotherapypatientonline English poetry read free - chemotherapyonline English poetry read free - cancer treatment online English poetry read free - hospital treatment online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 15 Friday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Radiotherapy"  - radiotherapy online English poetry read free - fear of radiotherapy online English poetry read free - radiotherapyonline English poetry read free - radiotherapy patient online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 15 Friday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Cryptic"  - crptic online English poetry read free - puzzling online English poetry read free - bizarre online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 22 Friday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Methotrexate"  - methotrexate online English poetry read free - methatrexate online English poetry read free - chemotherapy drug online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 27 Wednesday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Orgasm"  - orgasm online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 April 8 Thursday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Constipation"  - constipation online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Nagasaki"  - Nagasaki online English poetry read free - atom bomb Nagasaki online English poetry read free - atomic bombing Nagasaki online English poetry read free - nuke Nagasaki online English poetry read free - nuclear war Nagasaki online English poetry read free - a-bomb Nagasaki online English poetry read free - a-bombonline English poetry read free - nukeonline English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Hiroshima"  - Hiroshima online English poetry read free - Hiroshimaonline English poetry read free - remember Hiroshima online English poetry read free - remembering Hiroshima online English poetry read free - ceremony Hiroshima online English poetry read free - commemorative ceremony Hiroshima online English poetry read free - Japan Hiroshima online English poetry read free - Japanese remember Hiroshima online English poetry read free - Hiroshima remembered online English poetry read free Hiro shima online English poetry read free first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Hallucinations"  - hallucination online English poetry read free - hallucinations online English poetry read free - delusion online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Fireworks and Treacle" - bizarre image online English poetry read free -   - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "The Precious Moments of my Mortal Life"  - mortality online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 7 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.

2005  "Madness"  - mad online English poetry read free - madonline English poetry read free - insane online English poetry read free - insanity online English poetry read free - mentally disturbed online English poetry read free - mentallydisturbed online English poetry read free - crazy online English poetry read free - crazy person online English poetry read free - craziness online English poetry read free - first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2005 May 21 Saturday. Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.


HALLUCINATIONS

The man with the burning mustache
Is busy faxing my fingernails
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