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BUT THEY CAN’T
They should be able to see the issue from all sides and distinguish the sincere actor from the plant. They might possibly spy the gist through the mist but they can't. You've been speaking with them...
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AUGUST HAD FIVE CLOUDS
August had five clouds. I counted them one day. The sun certainly attracted crowds that August you went away. May had four dreams. What was significant about each one was the same. It was you in each...
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IN THE EATING AND FORNICATING REALM
In the eating and fornicating realm, poets never know what to do. Everyone wants particular things and they want to be wanted, too. In the eating and fornicating realm, poets focus on the higher...
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NATURE
Nature is so perfect she allows exceptions to her rule allowing those exceptions to be everything even as they stay exceptions. The way we thwart what is expected defies the stars, but the stars...
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THE THING NEEDS ME
The thing needs me more than I need it.The bullshit needs the poetmore than the poet needs the bullshit,if I may be so bold, your honor.The caffeinated middle class anxiouslyreads the horror in the...
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JUDGMENT IS ALWAYS A MISTAKE
Judgment is always a mistake, even when it's correct. In that moment there is a break between the world and its world, Every instance of seeing, a mistake. The world is simply the world and there is...
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BECAUSE IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY
Do you think it won't always be the same? It will always be the same. The thing which started you will never stop. The mind which you had is staying. You were made more precisely than you know. The...
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NOT BEING GLORIOUS
“I was feeling rather seasick as the ceiling flew away.” —Procol Harum Not being glorious, glory was allowed to you for a short time. I checked. Not once were you mentioned in my rhyme. Not being...
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THE BINARY WHICH CANNOT DECIDE
The back and forth of a compulsive binary is the soul of every feeling, and the poetry half-thought and half-uttered by every human soul. The poets merely finish the poems which are half-formed in...
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MOST POETS
Most poets are doing something else you would rather not be involved with, like a stranger who suddenly starts talking to you--- and immediately you need to listen, as you need to determine quickly...
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A CLOWN IS NOT SEXY
A clown is not sexy but when you find a clown funny, you are not sexy, either. Clowning is spreading. The woman you love laughs at you. Lying on her bed, joke after joke. Insults from her precious...
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VIRTUE IS INVISIBLE
You think the world is wrong--- which is right, you are supposed to think the world is wrong--- because virtue is invisible. Anxiety tortures you and you ignore it. As Edgar Poe and T.S. Eliot...
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INDIFFERENCE
They say romantic love must be manufactured by poetry, in songs, and such. It doesn't really exist. We've all heard this, and after some thought, I think it's true. I know someone's reading this and...
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BEFORE
In sports, skill matters, but luck, she matters more--- and this is what they say is God, in the line that went before. I didn't wait for the line particularly long, it was a bit of wisdom which...
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THE FATE OF MY FATE’S FATE
The fate of my fate’s fate carries with it such an interesting date I suggest you mark it on your calendar. You may be sleeping then, your life already decided, but tomorrow let others see (hang your...
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THE SEXUALITY OF THE ORCHESTRA PLAYING MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 24 IN C MINOR
The dark haired violinist's arms. The clarinetist's lips. The young conductor's smiles during restrained interludes. And my morning is almost done. The third violinist seems to be gossiping with her...
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THE HORROR OF HUMAN PHYSICALITY
The horror of human physicality is something lovers and doctors don’t seem to mind. But all poetry reflects disgust and praises beauty. Human deformity awes me quietly. Respected poets have been known...
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WITH ME
With me, you can lie across the couch with your feet up, eating cashews, staring into space, not saying anything. With me, you can pretend the sky is the sea. With me, you can contemplate the lack of...
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DEATH
When you loved me, it seemed too good to be true. Seeming makes things better. It was finally not to be. Our self-loves overlapped, creating the new. It didn’t last. You left me to my seeming and my...
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NOTHING CAN SAVE US FROM SEX
Reading the Divine Comedy, giving poetry readings, sewing, losing our looks, getting sick on a trip to the moon, nothing can save us from sex. It doesn't matter what the priest expects. Nothing can...
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