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OUR LOVE RESEMBLES LAZARUS
Our love resembles Lazarus. Despite what fate has done to us, Our love comes back from the dead! You can say yes if when you said, ‘no,’ You only said ‘no’ in your head. Our love resembles Lazarus....
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I TALK TO HER IN DREAMS
I talk to her in dreams. She dislikes me in real life, it seems. So I talk to her in dreams. She looks real to me—and just as lovely—in dreams And in those dreams she talks to me— About what? A...
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A HOLIDAY POEM
A certain amount of leisure Defines a real man, Not doing something—even though he can. Despair is on the face of every middle aged woman I see, Or a kind of triumphant anger Staring from her baggy...
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RELIGION IS MORE SCIENTIFIC THAN SCIENCE
There is no free will. The past cannot be altered. The past is where we live; what we call “the present” slips (even at this moment) into the past too quickly for “the present” (where free will might...
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BEYOND ALL THIS
Beyond all this Perfect lovers kiss, where no revenge exists, nor reason for revenge, nor those flaws, which harden into laws, As we look around, never knowing whether the one we love —do we love...
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SCARRIET’S HOT 100— AS WE RING OUT A WILD 2014!
1. Claudia Rankine –Seems everyone wanted her to win the National Book Award 2. Louise Gluck –Won the National Book Award. Coming into focus as morbid lyricist 3. Dan Chiasson –Coveted reviewing perch...
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HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED—MERRY CHRISTMAS
The art of pop music may be simple, but its sociology is endlessly complex. The Beatles first movie, A Hard Day’s Night, released 50 years ago last summer, featured the no. 1 song, “A Hard Day’s...
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GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
Getting what you want Always depends on someone else; Even if you are the sun, You need the glass to be seen; A wall will keep you out—though you make the whole world green. The road is built by the...
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BEN MAZER: TWO NEW POEMS
To Look At Them To look at them, who moved so easily between the garden or the railway station, who sat for hours where the boats came in, with little movements fused in unity, as if each were a...
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THE GOOD ECONOMY
The bomb: it creates jobs The economy is what keeps us stupid and enslaved. A “good” economy sells lots of stuff to lots of people. A “good” economy employs lots of people. So a “good” economy means...
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THE SENSITIVE POET LOOKS BACK
Looking back makes me sick and gives me vertigo; Remembering is not what I like to do. I see the dying and it doesn’t help at all that the dying is slow Or that the blur of everything contributes to...
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THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS? NO. THE BRITISH WITCH TRIALS
Governor Phips: historically obscure, but the British knight ran the Witch Trials in his colonial territory. Once again, Blog Scarriet, this time with almost the ease of a yawn, sets the whole world...
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HELP MY POOR HEART
Help my poor heart Which loves what it should not love. Hearts are made of earth— What is the earth worth To light and movement divine In divine realms above? A biological trick Cures the animal, who...
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SCARRIET ROCKED 2014!
Thomas Brady: the simpleton who writes it all In the 365 days of 2014, Scarriet brought you half that many original items: poems of lyric poignancy, articles on the popular culture, essays of Literary...
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THE POET MARY ANGELA DOUGLAS: THREE FRAGMENTS AND THREE POEMS
Who could imagine the pause between song and song could alter us so * Is it always raining at the back of every poem and just for you with your antique pen brand new * may I scoop from the frozen...
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JE SUIS SACRED
There are matters of which no jest can be made –Edgar Poe My reputation, my reputation! I’ve lost my reputation, the longest living and truest part of myself! Everything else in me is just animal-like...
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GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF YOU
I need to get to the bottom of you. I’ve had some superficial loves; now only the deep will do. Love makes cowards of us all: We choose the rich, the beautiful, the tall, And then because we’re...
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FIRST YOU HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE
First you have to fall in love And be a victim of the god Who died yesterday in the flowers But lives today in your beating heart Which makes you lie awake by the moon for hours. Then you make that...
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DO WE WANT EQUALITY?
“Married with my uncle…but no more like my father than I to Hercules” —Shakespeare, Hamlet Equality. Do we want it? Equality is, for both the peon and the pundit alike, the political aspiration of...
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ONLY ONE PICTURE
Only one picture captures who I am And does not let me run away, A picture you saw of me When the morning sun’s first ray Penetrated, like the world’s first camera, The black darkness of a heart...
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