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POETRY HAS NO WORDS
This wide cove on the sea where the old ships would launch is the only place to live in winter. Under the wimpled water the hairy seaweed dances on the floor of the shallow harbor with the perfect...
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THE INSANE GASLIGHTING NFL IS MAKING ITS ALREADY INFANTILIZED FANS INSANE
Patrick Mahomes (in bathrobe) arguably the best NFL quarterback, on TV (with Jake of State Farm). NFL Football fans: Of course the refs help the Kansas City Chiefs. The NFL needs heroes and dynasties...
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THEY BOUGHT US
There is a place where this poem begins and where it ends and a place where this poem, which is mine, becomes yours. I am sad that intellectually, this is all a poem can be and yet this simple truth...
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I GET HIGH
I get high when I write a poem you will enjoy.And it’s the simple goal which pleases me: I imagine people feel a lot of anxietywhen they begin a poem, and maybe I do, toobut it’s profound to think...
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AFTER WRITING ‘I GET HIGH’
It takes 15 lines for a poem to make a reader say"this poem sums up life."Fewer lines can make an impact---a reader might say to himself, "amazing."---but it will be a jewel held by a case,not the...
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BECAUSE WE WERE DIFFICULT
Because we were difficult it was perfect for it.We quarreled immediately. The sudden force of our emotions is why we didn’t talk for years.Actually, we never talked. We expostulated, sighed, sang.We...
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THE COMFORT OF INSANITY
The comfort of insanity is what some of us lean into now and then. I have a friend who is a Kansas City Chief fan and reality cannot offend him, I am not allowed to offend him. I cannot offend him but...
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THE COMMUTERS
Some guy is talking his head off in the enormous train station (as the pigeons fly by and scrounge for food.)He doesn't like people. He's fine! But they are disgusting and rude.I wonder: is he quiet...
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WHAT YOU THINK OF ME IS NOT ME
What you think of me is not me.You don't know my math. And God reads my poetry.This is what the good writer knows.God is reading him even when there's weeping inside the house and it snows.My mother...
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THE BEST WRITERS
The best writers don’t take what they write seriously. They don’t describe what the audience has already seen. The best writers give specific audiences funny poetry and they laugh before you know what...
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YOU WILL BE THE DAY WE ALL WANTED
To _____ Because your day was like that---Either one we remembered, Far away and hardly seen in a museum, Or, beginning always for usEven if we missed the brightness announcing youSurrounding every...
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SORROW IS ATTACHED TO EVERY FACT
Is it good or bad that I act---and ruin every previous fact?How fast did you act?Is velocity alone a fact?To pretend I wasn't here todaychanges every yesterday---and every one of those days was...
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QUICKENING OF ALPHA
If beauty is immortal and loneliness is worse than death, those seeking compassion and companionship will totally ruin poetry. Alcohol changes the brain. You block beauty’s subtlety even as, dreaming...
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POETRY HATES SPORTS
What am I to do? Sports hates poetry and I cannot relaxin either place. Competitive sweattaking place beneath the emotional bethas no place where nightingales sing and moons wax.I like poetry and...
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CAN WE BE HONEST?
Can we be honest for a moment?You are the greatest churchAnd the greatest fountain of perversion at the same time And for every mortal this is true.You be honest with me.I'll be honest with you.You...
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MORE REAL THAN THE BEAUTIFUL
Five thousand years after the plentiful became more real than the beautiful,the fish population doubling one morning after all the fish were fished,marking the beginning of what the sailor scientists...
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ARM, WINTER
Arm, winter. Warmth has made advancesclose to your domain. Those are martial dances.Arm, mighty ice.The sun isn’t nice.Wake up, winter. You cannot lie fallow anymore.Sprouts are bursting. That’s not a...
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IT PRETTY MUCH GOES LIKE THIS
You have a torrid affair with a blonde man at 39Who breaks your heart. Having his child,The most beautiful girl in the world,You move on to your lesbian loverWho leaves you when she is 45 And you are...
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WHEN THE MORAL AND THE CREATURELY AGREE
When the moral and the creaturely agree."I won't have sex with you. You offended me."What is the story of Eden? One of creatures. Now I see.The creature is exiled and condemned. Animals have no...
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THESE ROLES, THESE ARRANGEMENTS
These roles, these arrangementshave nothing at all to do with love.You could mention the death of your parents.A hint that your wife is leaving and you're thrown back into need and its shame.You do...
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