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ALL REPORTS ARE FALSE
The mind is what finally acts After it receives a false collection of facts. The truth forced you to pause When you saw the real cause. Your mind was sorely deceived By facts. It was not the truth, as...
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I RETURN TO YOU IN DREAMS
I return to you in dreams! Let me lean near you, and inform you of dreams. A dream is more than a dream seems. Do not insult dreams—especially dreams of you! Do poets presume poems and dreams untrue?...
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THE ONLY LOVE IS PUBLIC LOVE
The only love is public love; in public you will know It is love. Otherwise, hide. Otherwise, go. In private realms, hate, as well as love, breeds And privately even love has its unkind needs, So...
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THE ARGUMENT IS ALL I KNOW
All science depends on observation –a scientist I really don’t intend to come across as contrary, or slow, But in matters of the heart, the argument is all I know, The dispute of the heart which hurts...
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LET BEAUTY BREED
Let beauty breed. Do you think there was any other reason I loved you? It was your beauty. And the need For beauty is all there is in love. Brokenhearted, I turned philosopher, And every precept is...
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WHAT A MAN WANTS TO DO TO YOU
What a man wants to do to you Is way beyond my control. What he will not do is write you a love poem, What he will not do is the nothing we understand as the soul. We are computers, and the more...
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PRESIDENT’S DAY
It is always best to argue from simple truths; the details are interesting, but not necessary; if they were, no decision or action based on thought would be possible. Truth is dynamic; it doesn’t curl...
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WHY DID YOU MAKE WHAT WAS BEAUTIFUL UGLY AND WRONG?
You were at the center of my song. Why did you make what was beautiful, ugly and wrong? You loved my insights and my face. Two who love, and always love, cannot know disgrace. Why do you value choice...
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MY EMOTIONS CONQUERED ME
I don’t think it was you. I don’t think it was me. Were you blind, too? Did you see? My emotions conquered me. I remember, before a kiss, drinking a cold glass of water; In all my love adventures,...
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THE TRAIN PICKS UP THE CROWD. AND ME.
The Scarriet editor’s morning commute. Do you care about others? Sucker. Oscar Wilde’s father had three illegitimate children when he married Oscar’s mother—they were raised as cousins by other family...
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THOUGHTS ON LOVE
My love sent 20 fire trucks when I burned the toast. My love hunted me down and jailed me when I crossed the border by accident. My love sent me from the university when I wrote the wrong word. My...
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THE FLOWER WILL THINK
The flower will think itself a stem. The flower will cling to roots—and listen to them. The flower will fear the light And let the message of the stem ignite Fear and trepidation, as the role Of...
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THE CURTAIN
“I learn from people” —Socrates, The Phaedrus Of one thing I am certain: The secret to life is the curtain. In the blizzard of facts You have to notice how the person acts. Love and desire depends On...
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HATE IS BETTER THAN LOVE
Mad with desire, madly in love, hungry, unable to keep still, Love makes me restless and unhappy, Thanks to love, I lack accuracy and will. Love makes me pitiful, sad, unmanly, creepy, sappy,...
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THE BEAUTIES ARE ASLEEP
The beauties are asleep; lone, tired, Having, at length, succumbed to love, In some late, moonlit hour, when sweet defense Fell. The early part of the evening was tense. Old loves were argued and...
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THE BUSINESS PROFESSOR
The business professor has been talking of things Understood by the businessman in the pit. Government money flows freely. Only after the student graduated, did he get it. Now you see him hanging...
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THE LOST CHILD
Because you are gone, lost to love and all, And not even your shadow remains, I must talk to everyone when I talk to you, little one. You and I both belong to remembrance: You, remembered, I, the one...
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WHY DON’T YOU?
The filthy meaning of woman’s love Ostracizes me. When I was a boy, a boy a boy could shove; I never touched a girl—as evil as the male, maybe more, Kissing, not kissing—provoking men to war. The weak...
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WRITE HER POEMS
The woman is offended, and the man cannot come near. The man remains alone to cry his unmanly tear. The woman is offended and must remain apart As the man penetrates in sorrow the caves of his...
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SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS 2017: GREATEST WORDS OF ALL TIME
SONG 1 Even little cuckoos in their clocks, do it. Let’s fall in love. –Cole Porter 2 We kissed in a field of white and stars fell on Alabama, last night. –Mitchell Parish 3 Yesterday, all my...
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