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JEALOUSY
Jealousy is my Achilles heel. And you have brought me low since you found out how I feel. The greater the man, the more jealous they are. Jealousy connects the earth to the gleaming star. If you...
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WHEN THE FIRST COLD OCTOBER WINDS
When the first, cold, October winds Blow umbrellas apart, And leaves fall, and my miserable heart, Becomes more miserable, as it finds Broken avenues filled with rain, Ushering in winter’s promise of...
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IF I COULD TELL YOU SECRETLY I LOVE YOU MADLY
If I could tell you, secretly, I love you madly, Would you accept me gladly? Because there is no other way but secretly I can hold you close to me And tell you what I want to tell: The secret, heaven;...
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THE DEMON HAS SPILLED THE WINE: HALLOWEEN POEM
The demon has spilled the wine In the young girl’s dream. Blood, the passionate drink, Has been thrown on the garden, stalled, And finance took you up in its invisible arms, So you would be invisible....
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THE MORE HE LOVED, THE MORE HE WAS HATED
First, he was the delicate man who read poetry: “everyone must be good!” They heard him at the festival. Everyone understood. But eventually it became apparent he was completely naïve. To prevent a...
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I’M SORRY I TRIED TO MAKE EVERYONE LOVE ME
I’m sorry I tried to make everyone love me. I should have been thinking of you: Your eyes which hold the universe, Infinity in your mouth, too. You, in a bad mood, lying on your bed, Was the landscape...
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SONG FOR THE QUEEN
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy. And a deplorable. I’ve said things Which a heavenly choir never sings. When I’m calm and listening to Clair de Lune, And the peace of the world sends mist around the moon,...
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YOU’LL DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
You’ll do what you need to do, As the possibility of happiness presents itself to you. And what can you do about the possibility? Nothing. Don’t think about asking me. I have no idea. I’m just writing...
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WHEN YOU THOUGHT I HAD INSULTED
When you thought I had insulted— As joyfully, just to you, madly in love, I exulted— There was no hope for me. A woman’s love is chiefly about her dignity. A woman feels she needs to be treated with...
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THERE IS A THIRD
O love, there is a third— Between hate and love, And it’s real, though it has no word. It’s how I feel towards you. And this, stronger than the other two, Consumes me with merciful fury; It makes me...
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KISS THE GOOD LIFE GOODBYE
She loved him, and it was sweet how she did. Her husband was her father. He treated her like a kid. She needed equal love And he gladly complied. He loved her. She was beautiful. But her love for him...
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THE POLITICS OF THE PIGEON
The politics of the pigeon is to sit on a roof Or land, or fly together into the shadows With its locally formed flock. Meanwhile, a mathematician seeks a proof Fanatically. The business deal bores...
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THE VOTE FOR NOTHING
“In Fum-Fudge great is a Lion with a proboscis, but greater by far is a Lion with no proboscis at all.” Lionizing, Edgar Poe There is a vote for nothing. We can desire nothing. We can think of...
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I READ THE NEWS TODAY OH BOY.
The top ten reasons Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Presidency: 10. The Rising Cost of Obamacare 9. Hillary Is A Crook, Gets Away With It, And No One In Washington Cares 8. Hillary Failed...
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MIRACLE
There is something I meant to tell you When I was singing my song. There was something I meant to tell you When I loved you— But now, what good will it do? Yesterday the night seemed particularly...
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POLITICS OR LOVE
Are they so different, politics and love? Money and friends in nice houses and revenge. Don’t they both make you cry when it’s done? Both are about saying what you need to say in just the right way....
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LEONARD COHEN WONDERS: DID THEY DO SUZANNE ON SNL?
KELLYANNE (First woman to run a winning presidential campaign) Kellyanne takes you down to a rally by the river. You can hear the votes go by, you can spend the night forever And you know that...
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I HAD BEEN WANTING
The cold mathematics of moving bodies in space Is impressive; moon, sun, stars, the giant sky Is reality, and almost comforts us, and many, about to die, Pushed down by death in this sad, familiar...
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MY POETRY CAN ACHIEVE
My poetry can achieve, Just with the way it makes the reader breathe, A simulated feeling of love, I believe. The same way the eye Engenders love if it happens to spy A Michelangelo die In the...
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TO THE WOMAN WHO READS ON THE TRAIN
And most of the time she reads. As if someone broke her heart and she fled into a book And she no longer needs His love. Or the laughter love engenders. Look! Love could be here, but books Say love is...
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