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MARCH MADNESS SEMI-FINALS AND CHAMPIONSHIP
LED ZEPPELIN -BABE I’M GONNA LEAVE YOU/STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN vs THE RONETTES -BE MY BABY/BABY I LOVE YOU The Ronettes recorded “Be My Baby” July 5, 1963 and it raced to the top of the charts ahead of...
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MUCH BETTER TO BE BETTER
Once you decide the chorus of the gospel songWill change you forever and you will go alongOn the hiking trip and behind the oceanLyrics of the sea become an interesting notion,And because you were one...
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MACHIAVELLI TAUGHT ME HOW TO TRIUMPH OVER LOVE
I always do what I need to do—Not for me, necessarily;I always consider you. Loving or hating, it’s all the same—As long as there is passionWhich the investigators blame. Investigations come up...
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NOW WE NEED TO GET RID OF THESE POEMS
Now we need to get rid of these poemsWhich are actually prose.Poems as prose can be great, as far as that goes.Prose is more detailed and exquisite.Place names! Ship names! Let’s go and visit.Let’s...
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I WONDER IF YOU KNOW
I wonder if you know,In easy walking reach,I walk daily to the beachWhich faces your house,Behind trees, a river, and a bay,A mile away?I was a lion,And now I’m a mouse—I held you in my arms.We were...
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WHAT DO WE KNOW
What do we know when someoneSays what they say? We don’t know. It’s some kind of ironic day. If we shutThe door, the circus of air doesn’tGet a chance to build up strengthAnd sail in, with her voice,...
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I ONCE LOVED
I once loved a passage in a work so desperatelyI only heard the work in relation to the partWhich stood alone (I thought, for me)—A space in the whole leaving room for my whole heartTo grieve for a...
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WHY DIDN’T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?
I guess it was my fault. I went off to write my poemsInspired by you, but since I’m not a portrait painterYou didn’t think you needed to be there. In my mindYou were just fine and gradually you...
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YOU’RE NOT SMART
The greatest insult, she felt,Was the implication she was not smart.Admit her beauty was not perfectOr she did not possess a pure heart,You’ll see anyone, with a smile,Own these flaws, but not: “I’m...
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BEN MAZER’S THE HIERARCHY OF THE PAVILIONS—A REVIEW BY THOMAS GRAVES
Poets—like diplomats—know what not to say. There is none more reticent than the true poet. This is all the more remarkable to say, given that a poem (unlike most persons) is a person with his whole...
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MY EX IS LIKE AN ALZHEIMER’S PATIENT
My ex is like an Alzheimer’s patientRemembering nothing. I look at herAnd remember us—I sentPoems. She responded with her own. We wereThe lovers who took their placeIn hills on top of hills.I watched...
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YOU HAVE NO APPOINTMENTS WITH ME
You have no appointments with me.All love, and even my sweetest poetry,Simply remains. And when you fall off the cliff,Your last appointment (your death),In the downward fall, unable to catch your...
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WHAT IF EMBARRASSMENT IS TRUE?
What if embarrassment is true?What if embarrassment and truth are the same?I wouldn’t be embarrassed by my poetryIf you didn’t know this already—but I think you do.We drove around,A middle-aged...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF U.S. POETRY
1650 Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America: By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts published in London. 1773 Phillis Wheatley, a slave, publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious...
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SCIENCE!
Science is proclaimed with prideWith a feeling of religion and poetry inside.Scientific papers are read by few.“Go ahead, doctor, do what you need to do.”Scientific certainty is known to be...
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SUPERFICIAL
Superficial objections to the superficialPromote the superficial—Despite all your objections, you areYourself, the hidden star.The glow, the gas, the dust,The universe you don’t quite trust—And yet...
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POETRY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
Poetry is not supposed to be explained in poetry.You are expected to see a man in the shadowsAnd learn later something more about the man.But poetry and poetry are very close. PoetryWill now be...
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YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE
You are not supposed to seeThe one you love nakedIf you love herOnly because she is naked.The philosopher who protests:“It is the fault of her mindThat I love her this way”Protests in vain. But let’s...
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LOGAN, WILLIAM
This critic’s fire burns himselfEven as it entertains me.Let me admit I love(And maybe it offends you)What I am too cowardly to do:Undoing with wit someone’s witHaving the audacity to sit in a poem,A...
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THE POETRY OF INFORMATION
Nature is excellence everywhere all the time. Art is excellence—extremely rare. Not only is nature’s excellence more abundant, nature is excellence itself; nature defines excellence—as does that...
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