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MY DREAMS ALLOW ME TO SEE I’M NOT A NICE PERSON
Or that's how I reflect on what that deliberate torture meant,People torturing each other as I observed, stoically.But it's my reflective nature that shows me what I'm not, probably.People who meet me...
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THE POETRY OF THE POET
What he leaves out takes our breath away.What he doesn’t worry about is the genius.It’s a sign he won’t use signsto reflect on the sorrowful nature of the whole thing.Sadness is all about what he...
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AND NEVER CAN
Now I am satisfied. By writing this poem, the blood has left my head(Too much thought!)And returned to my arms,Where comfortable in my extremities,I can sleep. Thanks to this ideal deviceMy veins are...
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NOTHING LOVES
Nothing lovesBut it loves tomorrow.Be kind to loveFacing puzzling sorrow.Be kind to love, but do not love.You cannot love. How can you loveEternal afternoons Eternally tomorrow?She tried on hatsAll...
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SONGS OF THOMAS BRADY
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts remarked on the last hit Brian Jones played on: “[it] was recorded on Keith’s cassette with a 1930 toy drum kit…” And Keith Richards: “The basic track of that was...
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EVIL HAS TOO MANY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER ABOUT ITS COMPLICATED GOD
Evil has too many questions to answer about its complicated god.Your priest keeps wading into politics---don't you think that's odd?The referee has more and more rules that contradict each other.The...
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FORGIVE YOURSELF
Forgive yourself for not keeping up with all the details.The room is a mess. But at least the heat's on.You just wrote one of those wise poemsAdvocating simplicity, but look at your dangerous tower of...
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ONE PARADISE PREVENTS ANOTHER
I’m happy it worked out the way it did. Yes it hurt me to lose my lover.But look what happened.One paradise prevents another. It could have been nice for them, working for themselves. But I would have...
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DO YOU MEAN?
Do you mean you weren’t picking on me? “No, we just want information from you. We want to seeyour poetry. We can’t help it if everyone born after 1972 is paranoid. As angels,we can only do so much...
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NOW LIVING IN A SWEET SPOT OF FAME AND POETRY
The internetWill make this poet famous yet.What happens to famewhen you have a prominent nose but no one recognizes your nose or name?Where does literary fame go?(I knew it was him but the three...
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LIFE IS A PROBLEM
Life is a problem. This is what our dramatic literature says.Speak to the painter, who solves perspective, or the architect,who uses all things to make your life comfortable.Screw the poet, even if...
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AFFECTION AND ROUTINE
My dog knows what we all need to know. If he bites you, you might think he’s mean. But I love my boy, I know he’s good. I sense his love. He knows affection and routine. Every morning after my wife...
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ONE OF THE GREAT PARADOXES OF LOVE
Love is more religious than religion, for isn’t the one we lovelike the Christ we finally betray?Let me see if I can be a little more plain:Listen to the atheist speak out loud to the one he loveswhen...
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THE SIMPLE PART OF THE COMPLEX
The simple part of the complex allows us to hold complexity in our hand.(Some find this to be a metaphor for apples and poems.)To escape the complex, this is what you need to understand.Comfortable...
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SIMPLICITY
Be sweet and clear. As if you were talking to a child.When the child-like process is mucked up by lawyersand web-site designers, directions are confusing,wasting billions. The floor over the floor is...
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THOSE YEARS
Those years! When she was young! Looking back at them now feeds this poem for emotional reasons alone. Those years were neither literary nor amazing. I cannot make them so. I was clumsy in love, then,...
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OSCAR ME
Reality is always bigger than the event.But look at this ingenious elevation of the part!The event bigger than reality is the soul of our propaganda and our art.Plato was right. Both the greatest...
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THE POET SOMETIMES WRITES THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE
The poet sometimes writes things that aren't true.But that's not the same when I speak untruthfully to you.It isn't that I actually tell you a lie.I simply let what I should mention silently drift...
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OBEYING AUTHORITY WITH RESENTMENT
Obeying authority with resentmentor escaping authority with glee.I’m not inclined to be like that.My feelings on authority are complex.That isn’t me.I feel sorry for the captain or the teacherwho...
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NO CLOSE BASKETBALL GAME IS TRUE
The police went off in someone else's eyes. Cops need to be here before we start counting the money. The government will pay once we figure out the divisions in a day. Lawyers mean bad 80s movies and...
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