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ALL THAT IS BELOW ME
All that is below me, Everything ephemeral I notice and feel, The fog, accident, electricity, Cheerful conversations, music, a good meal— The picture which combines a human with an animal face,...
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ALLOW THE POET TO GO OUT THERE
It is best for you to be true, and practical, Even if it means you are dull; You should work hard and be sensible. A lot of people depend on you, And people are generally kind, and work for your...
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WHITMAN VS. MAZER—THE SENTIMENTAL POETRY MARCH MADNESS CONTINUES
The sentimental, as this 2018 March Madness Poetry tournament is finding out—as poems smash into each other in the particle accelerators of Scarriet’s aesthetic criticism—refers to any emotion at...
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TO CONFUSE THE WOMEN
To confuse the women, The men sent the homosexual, Hid the executives dying, Took the ad campaigns of flimsy dresses To new levels of prominence, Published a sports essay on male power And the need to...
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THE END OF A LOVE
The end of a love is appalling to the mind. It is like hell, the bind Of loving still—and yet to her I seem unkind. My love still sees, but now to me she’s blind. Were I a different man I would go to...
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MAYBE YOU’RE LIKE ME
Maybe you’re like me When it comes to sexuality, Maybe you can look and laugh At beautiful Diana in her bath, Walk away, and not feel the need to touch, Not really loving sex that much, Seeing it as...
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IF YOU DO THE CALCULATIONS
If you do the calculations, The most successful movie ever claims but one percent of a nation’s day, Then less, as time gradually intercedes. If there is a living fame, It has nothing to do with the...
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MAD MAD MAD MARCH MADNESS! STEPHEN COLE VS. EMILY DICKINSON
Two sentimental giants—Emily Dickinson and Stephen Cole—face off in the Fourth Bracket in more first round action. BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH -Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for...
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SHE HATES TO WAIT
She hates to wait. She has never waited for anything. When the train arrives, There she is. Never early. Never late. When I love her, she hasn’t waited for me. There I am. Suddenly. She welcomes me as...
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MARY ANGELA DOUGLAS VS. ALGERNON SWINBURNE!! A MARCH MADNESS CONTEST FOR THE...
Algernon Swinburne was a decadent, mid-19th century, English aristocrat (Eton, Oxford), friends with the painter, and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and art critic, John Ruskin. We are told he was...
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DO NOT WONDER WHY BEAUTY
Do not wonder why beauty eludes you, Why beauty hides, Why everyone is embarrassed by beauty, And sweetest beauty even the poet derides. Do not wonder why beauty Cancels wonder. Beauty is an end In...
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NEVER TELL YOUR LOVER
Never tell your lover she is stupid. But don’t tell her she is smart. Let her figure it out. Don’t brag. Then she’ll nag. Make your mind a vast, neutral, space she can fill with her heart. If you want...
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MARCH MADNESS CONTINUES. THOMAS HARDY VS. SUSHMITA GUPTA!!
Utterly In Love –Sushmita Gupta Of all the remarkable, Things and feelings, In my life, You are one. And I guard you, And your identity, In the deepest, Quietest corner, Of my heart, With a passion,...
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ONE HUNDRED GREATEST SONGS OF MELANCHOLY ADRENALINE
We love these songs like a high from an addiction—they are fast, always fast and jittery, and “adrenaline” is key, but the formula also requires “melancholy”—it is the nature of addictions to be sad...
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TOTALLY SEXY IS NOT LOVE
Totally sexy is not love. This is why your lover isn’t nice. She has urges. She doesn’t want advice. She doesn’t need excuses. She needs Fat frog legs eaten whole in the weeds. Love is just a word to...
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SHE INVADED IRAQ
General Santa Ana faces off with General Winfield Scott—Diego Rivera “I really entertain greater hopes, that America will not finally disappoint the expectations of her Friends” —Washington to...
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TO THOSE WHO TAKE MY POETRY SERIOUSLY
To those who take my poetry seriously, Don’t. Unity is the soul Of poetry. Unity is just out of reach Of life’s incomplete, enduring reality Of accidents, memories and slurred speech— A poem is a...
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STILL SOFTER
I Still softer. Your kiss will kill me. Don’t send me out into the murdering cold. Still softer. Don’t let this love grow old, Which now breathes too fast, Which pursues pleasure too quickly, So...
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PEOPLE THINK THE WORLD IS GHOSTLY
People think the world is ghostly. It is not ghostly in the least. People think there are ghosts. Physical is the beast. The wealthiest man longs to be tall. She twists her neck to parallel park. You...
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MY LIFE IS FINALLY SAFE FROM SORROW
My life is finally safe from sorrow. All my dreams are ripe, The smoke pours from my philosophical pipe. The fields will be less ripe tomorrow. The roads of mud where the cannons were dragged, To fire...
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