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WHICH BULLSHIT
Which bullshit do you want today? The Zen priest who tunes into jazz? (Call him master) or Kings and Queens—all that razzmatazz? Or a girlfriend who loved you—and went away? Which bullshit do you want...
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MARCH MADNESS SEX AND DEATH POEMS! NEW TOURNAMENT! NEW OVID TRANSLATION!
Scarriet was going to run a Sex Poem March Madness Tournament, but we couldn’t find enough good sex poems. The ancient Roman poets, many famous for sexual frankness, weren’t much help. To the educated...
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I HAD NOT BEEN
I had not been In love before the moment I saw you, when Poetry was born for me, and organized itself, by your grace, in the eyes of men. I had not loved, nor thought of love, nor been moved, Until...
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HAPPY POETS PRAISE TIME
Happy poets praise time—and even use it in their rhyme.Punctuation is a race car!Measurement pants after a sinking star.Time, it’s true, makes life unreal—“Was it that long ago? It seems like...
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BEING THAT YOU ARE LIMITED
Being that you are limited, in every way possible, you are wrong. The rule is, since you don’t know all, you don’t know anything. You can’t write a good song. Others who are wrong may like your song...
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EVERY DREAM
The possibility of loss is so enormous that every hour we brood on loss until we finally, in our melancholy, refuse to think on the enormity of all we come to lose. Stretched by loss, we stretch out...
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EXCITEMENT BUILDING FOR POETRY MARCH MADNESS
Scarriet is flying in new translations to the March Madness arenas for the 2023 tournament! Rumor has it Marla Muse will be more visible than ever this year. Swarms of visitors have invaded the swanky...
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MARLA MUSE MADNESS LECTURE ON LESBOS
I am too drunk to remember much. But Marla Muse, before flying off to Colombo, Sri Lanka to attend Scarriet’s 2023 Sex and Death Poetry March Madness tournament, made more enemies with remarks in...
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THE ASPERGER OSCARS, OR, THE SMALL TALK OLYMPICS
The mess of the film (strike that, video game) that won best picture last night reflected perfectly the mess of a ceremony which annually attempts to reconcile “woke” with “I win!” My best Oscar...
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THE MUSE IS A GOOD MOOD
How wonderful this poem decided to speak, though I am not wonderful; in fact, I’m weak. How wonderful there is a word like won-der-ful. Isn’t it something you sometimes admire? The good mood itself,...
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I’LL BET YOU THERE IS NO LAW
The emotional pros hype themselves. A tuxedo worn in a mud-spattered ditch. Nothing about them is sound, degrees on the wall, framed basketball jerseys, professional sports stars who could sell a hot...
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HOW TO BET ON THE MADNESS
Sri Lanka, March Madness Sex and Death Poetry Tournament, Betting. Remember. Defense wins championships. Even in “sex and death” poetry tournaments. The lower the score, the better your chance of...
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PUZZLING OVER THE ‘SEX AND DEATH’ POEM BRACKETS IN COLOMBO
As Scarriet explained, the good sex poem is rare. Ancient sex poems are mostly gasbaggy and vulgar. Aesthetics concerns beauty. This is not to say that exquisite words cannot tastefully embrace the...
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MARLA MUSE IN CONVERSATION
Scarriet: Marla, how do you think this sex and poetry Scarriet 2023 March Madness is going? M: I love Sri Lanka. I love the sex theme. I think you’ve done a good job with it, Mr. Scarriet. You’ve...
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BRACKET CONTROVERSY!
Advocates of Literary Modernism are threatening to boycott the 2023 Scarriet March Madness Tournament (Sex and Death Poetry) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. They feel Marla Muse has too much influence. “She’s...
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THE ANCIENT BRACKET, MARLA MUSE SPEAKS ON SEX, THE LATEST ON THE ELIOT...
Poetry interprets sexual feelings differently than real life does, simply because there is less time within the poem. It is impossible to hold these two ideas in our mind at once: sex in life and sex...
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ROMANTIC AND MODERN BRACKETS, SEX AND DEATH MADNESS
There is no more “modern poetry.” A quarter of the way into 21st century, early-to-mid 20th century poetry (“Modernism”) looks closer to 19th century verse than poetry published over the last 50...
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MODERN, MODERN, MODERN, NEW, NEW, NEW!
The Scarriet Poetry March Madness has invited the best sex and death poems of all time to participate for 2023. The challenge is that published poems are not sexy. And for one major reason. Poetry, as...
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DIGGING INTO THE SEX AND DEATH MODERN POETRY BRACKET
For the Modern Bracket, Scarriet found a number of sex poems in the underground anthology New American Poetry (Grove Press 1960), on its cover called an “Evergreen original”—a publication seeking to...
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SEX AND DEATH POETRY MARCH MADNESS SWEET SIXTEEN
Marla Muse has told us poetry and sex are opposites—but is this true? We know religion and academia have a civilizing role. But all attempts to civilize breed resentment. Poetry belongs to both:...
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