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THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS BY ROY ROGERS
Don’t you remember how we tried to read that book? How exactly do you think two nerds are expected to look? You are actually beautiful, and you don’t like to read, But want your nerdy lover—a true...
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THE MIND BEHIND THE MIND
I went into a situation totally blind, Teaching my love a lesson with documents official, Saddening myself, as I thought I was unkind, But later found elation in wisdom of mind behind the mind. She...
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WHAT IS A BAD POEM?
A good poem needs 2 things. Most have the first: an anecdote, theme, or story which supports the poem. The second is why 99% of poems fail. It is because the anecdote, the reason for the poem, is a...
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THE MORE I DESIRED TO SEE YOU
Desiring to articulate what I saw I used words. But words don’t see. What I saw saw nothing. My love for you betrays Not only nights, in which I try to see And don’t, and don’t sleep, but all my days...
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SINCE ETERNITY IS DEATH
Since eternity is death, I’ll take this hour as my bride, This hour! When the light of the sky is leaving And beauty begins to coincide with light’s deceiving In that hour when all the phantom lights...
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COMPARISON, OR WHY I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU
Love compares its way to religion, Religion compares its way to love. Religion does not save a person, but a people; Your religion is always theirs, not yours. None of the things which arouse pity...
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THE MORE IN LOVE
Love! The more in love, The easier jealousy can kill The love. One whispered word Thwarts a happy lover’s will. Sad, in the garden, sad, in the street. No where and no one, jealousy Said, other loves,...
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I DON’T THINK ABOUT YOU, I HOPE YOU DONT THINK ABOUT ME
I don’t think about you; I hope you don’t think about me. I’m not worth thinking about—I can’t understand poetry Unless I know what the poet looks like, and the song Makes the poet dance. Even then I...
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THE PORN OF US IN LOVE
The porn of us in love is the most forbidden. On trains, in marches, people push and shove, Speeches, episodes, scenes are watched, but we are hidden. Those attributes are anonymous, cheap. The...
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WHAT CATHERINE KNEW
There was very little Catherine could actually do: Read a book. Put on jogging clothes and jog down the avenue. Be slightly useful to a boss; friendly to a friend, or two. What made Catherine...
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USE YOUR BEAUTY FOR LOVE
Use your beauty for love, not control, And I will give you, for this love, my soul. And since beauty on a person doesn’t last, It might be good to put it to good use fast. If you fail at love with...
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POEM, JANUARY 2017
I’m the only good person in the world. White American liberals, who raised me, are hypocritical and racist. And then I hear that in other countries, in Latin countries, in India, all over the world,...
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THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL WITH THE UGLY VOICE
She’s beautiful, and would be my choice; She’s beautiful, but I hesitate by that ugly voice. How often do we experience the soul? I do. When I look at a woman who is beautiful. But then, I draw near,...
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INDIE INDIA
The poet and painter Sushmita Gupta. There’s something happening in poetry at present which ought to make many very proud, and a smaller, but a still significantly large amount of people,...
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THEY’RE NOT GOING TO THINK WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO THINK
They’re not going to think what you want them to think, Even when they’re in your arms, After reading your poem and sighing. And you? What will you be thinking? How love lights you up, but already...
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WE ARE ARTISTS, EVERY ONE
We are artists, every one. We see more in the shade than in the sun. We see more of the twisted body on the couch Than art can depict, never mind “My kid could do that.” Ouch! We see more in the...
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DIDN’T ONE LOVE ME?
Dreaming of being loved, I weep with joy to think when that joy will begin. But none loves me, or seems to love me. Not enough love is death and too much love is sin. I wake up. I dress. I try to be...
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WHEN I ENTERED THE ORGY
When I entered the orgy, it seemed I had entered a brawl. It did not seem that anyone was making love at all. It was dark, and sounds I heard only filled me with fear. I had come for love. Something...
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LOVE IS STUPIDITY
Love is stupidity. It wasn’t passion, because passion Can make anything for a moment with anyone happen. For a few days, it seemed to me It was my passionate poetry. But then I found out she had...
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THE STUPID WANT TO KNOW
The stupid want to know what they don’t need to know. They ask questions all day. They are stupid that way. The truth will only be embarrassing; the wise Know how to avoid embarrassment. They say a...
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