Bob Hicok: Poetry | Karan Kapoor | Substack

An alternative education

if you were hit in the head and didn't die..

Dec 28, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

Reach vs. grasp

Who wags more than I do, though I don't have fleas

Dec 27, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

My attempt to join the ranks of famous psychologists has once again fallen a wee bit short

Ocean, a potion of motion. Love and dove and glove.

Dec 26, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

The biography of a spirit

When the moon dies, it'll come back as a flashlight

Dec 25, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

The unnatural order of things

Time being infinite, all she needs is a fourth job to pay for everything else

Dec 24, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

Recent posts

History, as I understand it, is not the subject of this poem

Yes, I’m calling you an asshole potato

Dec 10, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

I’m happiest alone in a room writing poems

Dec 6, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

My problem with cops is my problem with power:

Dec 2, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

A bit of a crush on a hush

Are we alone in the universe?

Nov 30, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

Weighty (sigh) matters

the desire to go on and on

Nov 29, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

We should have sex, or lunch, or hope

Nov 26, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

A poem with no commas or God

I learned nature is more civilized than civilization

Nov 25, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

Notes for a job description

I started writing poems that were terrible

Nov 24, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

One definition of art: not this

or tell this poem it’s not an alligator

Nov 23, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

that's enough violence with my coffee

Nov 22, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

My Most Recent Position Paper

“the tongues of my fingers ask to be words against your skin”

Oct 7, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

“We wake and kiss and eat and kiss and talk and kiss and walk”

Sep 29, 2025 • Karan Kapoor

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