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THE MOVIE YOU’RE IN
The movie you're inis this one. You see a lot.Walking through half-dark rooms,the bird chiming outside,a soundtrack of early morning,the movement of the cat on the cot near the books by the window,are...
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INGENUITY OF THE UGLY
The simple handsome manwill always be outdone by the ingenuity of the ugly.Why did I think beauty charmed me?It didn't. It was the ugly.Life belongs to youth, they say,and youth is beautiful.No. The...
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WHEN YOU SEE MY POEM
When you see my poem---some combination of light and dark---what do you need to know about its environmentto know how real it is and how much it deserves fame?You haven't seen any advertisements. You...
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TO EXPLAIN MUSIC
To explain music to you, who cannot hear,might I use my poem here?Poetry attempts to convey the unheard melody---actual music in poetry is heard differently.Why a minor chord sounds sad can be...
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GRADUATION DAY
The self needs to be definedbefore I go out of my mind.Is knowing who I am the key to understanding others?Or is that just self-help rot?Have you ever been in a loud crowd,yelling with everything...
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BOB DYLAN, BRIAN JONES, THE BEATLES’ AESTHETICS, THE STAPLE SINGERS, AND THE...
Mick and Keith. Still rocking in their 80s. Their lasting fame will be the Jagger/Richards songs. There is no good Rolling Stones album. From the beginning, the Rolling Stones were a touring outfit...
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STILL SHE DOMINATES MY THOUGHTS
Still she dominates my thoughts—as if the whole of earth had been made for our romance alone, hidden in the shade! Didn’t everyone in the human racesurvive for centuries that I might see her face?...
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CATCH 22
Everyone by now has heard of Caitlyn Clark, the young woman from Iowa, University of Iowa basketball star, and now WNBA rookie, drafted no. 1 last month by the Indiana Fever. Her fame is from one...
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VERDI IS LIKE SOCCER
Verdi is like soccerand Handel is like PBS. Understanding classical musicis the only thing to understand, I guess. It’s nice to understandthe chords of “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” I feel superior to...
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PROGRESSIVE
Progressive is when the wise and trustworthy die out.Those who remain are increasingly insane.Some form of mental illness afflicts us all.Re-combinations of pathological gaslighting become...
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THEY’RE NOT POEMS
I wrote poems for yearsthat were not poems.The marvelous insight presented was presentedin such a way the reader said, "got it."Something harrowing was missing.Subtlety was missing.There was too much...
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DREAMING, WEIRDLY
Where do these things fit?In the bus ride of my dream,memory disappears and yet memory is it.Life looks for permanence, the permanent its essence,but this immortal dream(Socrates and my girlfriend...
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THE PARADOX OF LOVE
The only ones worth loving are those who love themselvesbut these present themselves as unlovable.There is a whiff of arrogance, an unmoved quality;those brimming with self-lovewill resemble...
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THERE IS TOO MUCH POETRY
I give up. There’s no good. The criminal wins. Okay, I admit it, I’m evil. There is too much poetry, too much of it enjoyed by crooks. At the races, those names they give horses are poems as much as...
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I SEE THESE OTHER POEMS
“Poetry exists only in the realm where we wonder what poetry is.” —Anon. I read these other poems and wonder is their ambiguity meant to be a comfort or am I being threatened? These poets who are...
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IT’S INEVITABLE ISN’T IT?
It’s inevitable, isn’t it, that during long periods of your life one person is on your mind. Picture them. Do you still love them? Life’s many. Loving one is to wrestle the confused and the unkind....
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LOVE IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE
Love is the opposite of love. Her love was moral and made me see I was a fool. Her kisses were kisses of work. Her kisses were kisses of school. I wanted to sing and remember things. She wanted to be...
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NOW THAT YOU HEAR THAT WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT IS
Now that you hear that what do you think that is? I found it strange the poets could not hear the far ruining. It had been in my country, for that century, the understanding love would not be...
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INTERESTED
I’m interested to know if I should be interested. The asking and wondering can get out of hand. All movies and songs are where the lover takes a stand and the beloved is silent. Who knows what the...
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I WASN’T ANYONE’S FRIEND
In their collective activity, human beings are fine. They produce poems and roads. I just don’t like them individually. Guarded, indifferent, finally only considering themselves. When they reach out...
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