i-dolid magazine is a Japanese forum for lovers of real dolls . . . love dolls . . . and the people who love them. Really, love dolls as in ultrarealistic sex dolls. One man’s fetish is another man’s dysfunction. Of course, you know they’re watching progress on Sony’s robot toys very closely. As soon…

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Confession Ten Lines Found Poem Janice Yang Hush! Silence… Please…please…pay a little attention to my confession: Here I am! Can you listen to me? Can you hear my lamentation? Stray Dog what you call me is my stigmatization. All my life is filled with humiliation. I am overwhelmed with desperation. Alienation! Banishment! Crucifixion! Devastation! Exploitation!…

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Davo loves porn and he loves poetry . . . so . . . he combines both interests into a little something he calls . . . Amateur Porn Poetry . . . both of which are very much on the amateur level . . . indeed. Very much NSFW.

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The Taipei Kid points tells us that newest fad in Taiwan is sex orgies and then points us to this slanted article. Wait a minute. If 37% of HIV+ folks in Taiwan are gay men . . . then why would the police think the best strategy they can come up with of stopping the…

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Corbett’s friends Keiji and Eiji are the first two members of the public to go to the top of Taipei 101 and he’s got a pretty kool photo of the occassion. Won’t be finding me up there anytime soon.

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Ukiyo Ten Lines Found Poem Ted Lee Under a kimono crouching a girl Whose head is size large but body a coil Tender and submissive we deem she is Tough and subversive her true nature be Gazing back at the world that tries to peep With the movement still but a mood that roars At…

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Elegy for a Man in His Early Thirties Ten Lines Found Poem Nicole Dai It’s a Friday, like today, when we first met You had wan flesh, wine hair, and stormy conscious You said you’re the son of God I saw you got problems; But the words turned me on and we had such a…

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Condolence for the Girl with Pearl Earring Ten Lines Found Poem Ginger Ku Beauty! Frost—in Shakespeare’s summertime Lost─on Homer’s blood-shedding field She bounces, flings, tumbles and falls Grasped again─ By the master’s lascivious eyes, Yet offered an unexpected loot: An Unfading commemoration. So she glances, with somewhat surprise, At the dauntless men Craving for her…

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The Scream Ten Lines Found Poem Teresa Lee The space you need, I let you be No matter how you disguise I sense your inanity. You tangle yourself in a way unfamiliar I drag you out in my way familiar. You scream aloud to let me hear I tremble to envision what I can get…

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The End of the Tunnel Ten Lines Found Poem Cindy Wu Cold and dark, the tunnel inside, Following tracks that left behind. Forward, forward, what do you see? Is there in the back more to meet? A beam of light front seems to shine More closer, more to decline? What leads us down here in…

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Impression, Sunrise Ten Lines Found Poem Audrey Lau Sun rises, Here And there, blushes Eternal water transparently as Changing sky. No rowboats and no fixed Shape Ripples in thy crystal eyes I could feel before I Thought [Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet]

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Victim of Fire Ten Lines Found Poem T.C. Cheng Let me be the worshiper of Satan, for God has turned my city into fire, and my hair into flame. Light me up, Darkness for I’m the citizen erased and my face vague… Shadow, Shadow, concrete me, Hatred, and hang them on Satan’s teeth by eyes,…

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Hideaway Ten Lines Found Poem Pauline Huang In daylight, captivated in dark of Despair, was she not seizing the letter, But seized by the sudden punch of words, Escaped from life, Intentionally. A blossom lost its hue amid reluctance ’nd will. Not freedom she has longed for, shut in silence Of love, thy hate seem’d…

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Marcus Stone’s “In Love” Ten Lines Found Poem Diana Chiang Sitting so close I cannot disguise That love so deeply intended Could cease to live at dawn I gently gaze Searching for a sparkle in your eye Given back to me the love I once desired One pleasant afternoon I gaze upon myself. [In Love…

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The Old Guitarist Ten Lines Found Poem Michelle Wang The wooden body and the gifted sound Once brought joy to the little crowd But the crowd never felt grateful for the delightedness They only took the enjoyment for granted As times went by The strings got loosened And the voice got roughened This was where…

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Quietness Ten Lines Found Poem Miranda Lu We were noisy. We shouted out. We jumped up. We ran around. We are quiet. We shut up. We stare down . We sit up. We are colorful, But no longer happy. [_____ by Picasso]

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A Haunted Song Ten Lines Found Poem Brian Huang A tempting song sung by beautiful ladies, Far and near echoed on the sea, relentlessly. On the sea sailors battered by waves and sounds, As if they ne’er escaped the raging disaster forthcoming. And then a man of wire craftly waxed the crew’s ears, the way…

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Mona Lisa Ten Lines Found Poem Anne Hsui She is the only one in the world, without goodness looks, but with the fame of beauty. She is a myth of myths, an implicit smile evokes a century-long question： Who is the luckiest guy awarded? For what the privilege laid on him? She is a riddle…

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Mirage Six Ten Lines Found Poem Doris Vallejo Time contracts between us across the frigid snow thawed by our heat. Longing swells. Tides of blood thrum in quickening beats. Etched in moonlight we measure silence nimbly spanned in a leap. Tomorrow nothing will remain but frozen prints of paws and feet. [Mirage Six by Boris…

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Ten Lines Found refers to a almost-found poetry exercise in which the poet looks at a painting or photograph and quickly writes a ten-line response within five minutes. It is akin to flash poetry. My literature students participate in the activity by way of first examining some poems inspired by great works of art. Then…

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