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LIFE, WITH INSULT
The insult lovers feel Is a hurt known to never heal. Dido took a bath which burned like day Before night’s insult would go away. Insult finds you, though shadows fall. Insult does not eviscerate...
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PITY ME
Pity me that I use this elaborate lie To make me happy. When did truth make anyone happy? The truth is sad—or when happy, we doubt its validity, So if this elaborate lie makes me happy, And you detect...
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SCIENCE IS YOUR FAITH
If science is your faith, theory you cannot see Teaches you it’s safe not to appreciate me. Shouldn’t the moon move the clouds—just as it moves the sea? What is an orb? What is a line? And what is...
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THE ONLY MAN
If I am the only man? I will never again Write love poems! I’ll demand them. The world will need My ejaculate seed. I will comply, With a keen, discerning eye, My pleasure the only thing which can...
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BEAUTY IS SMART
Women are more sexually aggressive than men. —Donald Trump The smart do not run the show, Because the smart are wise enough to know It takes too much time and energy to make things go. Studious, shy,...
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AND NOW: THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE AND THE GOLDWATER RULE.
Bush Jr. And The Credulity Era There is a movement afoot among certain educated circles to discredit psychology as a professional practice by applying it to the 45th president of the United States. In...
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I PICK MY RELIGION CAREFULLY
I pick my religion carefully, By the poetry and the stories in its book, By kindness and wisdom, but more By how beautiful its churches look. Paintings of beauties with downcast eyes Are enough...
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BEAUTY DOESN’T CARE
Beauty doesn’t care, Yet layer after layer you wear, And when you go, I follow you there To honor and kneel to you, with your beautiful flare. You decided, when you saw me staring, To punish me,...
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HOW WILL MY MEMORY REMEMBER ME?
How will my memory remember me? Will it travel back to the desperate years When I cried for you those hesitant tears, Since, as a man, a few tears were enough, When I loved, but didn’t quite love...
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TEACH ME ALL YOUR LANGUAGES
Teach me all your languages: The different silences, when for different reasons we Shall be silent—between performances of sad poetry— And melancholy rendering of mournful, aching music— When what is...
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THE POINT OF THE POINT
Poe, the first to clearly articulate the theory of the origin of the universe in the Big Bang (see his 1848 scientific essay, Eureka,) said a long poem does not exist. Da Vinci—and we believe this is...
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BE ONLY FOR YOURSELF
Pain cannot be selfish. Pain is the only proof Of suffering—how can suffering be selfish? Only suffering puts a person into hell. Then why do you hate the selfish? Guess your theory doesn’t work so...
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THIS IS NOT MY BEST POEM
This is not my best poem. My best poem is gone. It was almost written. But when I stopped The poem kept going on. Life will eclipse life. What was it like? I cannot remember. A total failure? A...
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THE WOMAN OF TWO MINDS
The woman of two minds Doubts that you love her And doubts she loves you. She knows she is Pretty, but doesn’t think she is. That is, she is pretty enough to despise You for loving her physically, But...
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WE ALL LOOK BETTER FROM FAR AWAY
We all look better from far away. I kiss you in the shadows, But you don’t look as good in the day. This morning you made a face, like something wasn’t right, And immediately the charm fled which we...
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SERIOUS QUESTION
Is the world large or various? People, too numerous to tabulate, People looking the same, people who you kind of hate; Why do people look the same? Because the world is large, and to fill it, Faces...
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THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO LOVE
The only antidote to love is a cigarette. What extends the feeling of love after sex can kill it. Love will be the end of love, and the awareness of this Is the philosophy which laughs at the kiss. I...
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LOVE IS AN ACT: IN PRAISE OF ROMANTICISM
It is time to be honest about love. We are going to argue that love—truly romantic love—rejected as cheap and backwards these days, will save the world. First, we admit that love is rare, and it dies...
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WHY YOU LEFT ME
If the insulting is true I must be careful how I speak of you Because I love you, and you are a shit, So with great care my poem must speak of it. A poet should not be afraid to tell What put the...
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YOU OWNED A BEAUTY
You owned a beauty— And while you owned it, I fed On your glories, but now you live, Without me, and your beauty has fallen dead. You hated memories and pictures, For the picture was you; But now...
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