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NEW SCARRIET ESSAY: THE CONSERVATIVE IMAGINATION
The imaginative does not produce a series of images. Imagination builds coherently upon—what? The only thing it can build on—the fact. And the fact exists as fact in only one place—the past. “The sun...
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YOUR BITTERNESS, MY LOVE
You can have your bitterness And I will have my love. These days lovers are criminals And haters are victims. Well, fine. I will let my poetry in the crevices shine. You can have your gossip in the...
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WHEN I DISAPPEARED
“Death of one eye is loving. Death of both is love.” —Daipayan Nair “Ashes & diamonds, foes and friends, are quite the same in the end.” —Sushmita Gupta ~~~ First I disappeared, caring for...
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HATE IS A RIGHT
The Left in the U.S. today has sought to justify its increasing extremism by calling whatever it disagrees with “hate speech.” The terrifying lack of logic (the Left drips with hate for Trump—so is it...
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THE INFORMER
Now that I’ve told you everything, I presume you will use more care. No need to thank me. I informed you because I trust you. You seem to understand by now the transfer of information Is as important...
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THE LOOKED AT
The looked at never look; For looking is a lonely thing. If you are looked at, you have friends, Awards come after you, and a ring. But the eyes look on horror when you are trapped and only see....
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WHY DO I THINK
Why do I think of you When I am dead to you, Having done something terribly wrong? Why does this fetid pond keep singing a song? Why do I keep thinking of you, My thoughts as numerous as drops of dew?...
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REALITY
Reality becomes a play As soon as you say Anything about it. In that room Is the consciousness of war, death, the doom Of innocents, all in that room. As soon as you take a picture of the ape, You can...
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WHY DID YOU LOVE ME ONCE
Why did you love me once, and never again? Love should be like the sun and send Light interminable. First you loved me as a friend, And friendship is so close to love, love Thinks friendship is what...
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YOU CAN’T DEFEAT THE PATRIARCHY
You can’t defeat the patriarchy. It takes too many forms, it lives In too many ways, the forms Zeus used invade you innocently enough, Crowning your sight with objects and vistas, Animals, scenes,...
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I WAS GENTLE AND TRUE
I was gentle and true. But she was not. So pardon me that I’m not as gentle with you. She was untruthful and unkind So I’m not saying what’s exactly on my mind. She was someone I cannot forget So I’m...
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NOBODY WANTS WHAT THEY WANT
I’ve changed my mind—I don’t need all the freedom I had. I wanted fun, but why is fun always seen as bad? I’ve changed my mind—I don’t need all the freedom I had. I guess I don’t want to go out and...
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THIS POEM NEEDS MUSIC
This poem needs music, Beautiful and new, If this poem would say All it wants to say to you. A melody is what it wants— A melody that haunts, A melody making sure Thought is profound and pure In...
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I NEVER GIVE OUT MY TRUE LOVE’S NAME
I never give out my true love’s name. Is love my god? My god is shame. In the dreaming garden I walked along, Too ashamed to sing a song. Love may be the moon, smooth and bright. But shame rules the...
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THE BEST
Honor the best. The best saves us all. It appalls you to experience it? Let it hypnotize you and appall. Let it murder your pride, individual. The best saves us all. I was forced to admit she was...
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POETRY MAKES ME UNHAPPY
Poetry makes me unhappy. It makes me not me. It’s easy to imagine and say Night lives in the beautiful day. Like a hypnotist, poetry can tell Me I’m sleeping, and things are not well, And I should...
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FOLLY
I saw the folly of others— And said what I saw. I hated law breakers. I loved the law. I rebuked the folly Of others drinking wine. I was perfect. But now the folly is mine. I fly to folly, and sing...
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CAN A POEM BE HAPPY, AND TELL THE TRUTH, TOO?
Can a poem be happy, and tell the truth, too? Love, there is no truth except as it relates to you. So this poem must find a way to make you happy And praise is what love loves; the world, flattery. So...
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FEELINGS AND FACTS, OR: OTHELLO FIGURES IT OUT
Feelings, such as jealousy and fear, are extremely common, and those who say all sorts of negative feelings don’t exist in their heart from time to time are lying. There has been a tendency in our day...
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THE TROUBLE WITH JEALOUSY IS THAT IT LOVES
“I’m just a jealous guy”–John Lennon ~ The trouble with jealousy is that it loves, Holds on sweetly, sweetly as it loves, Finds grace in the small spaces where it loves, But it holds onto pictures,...
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