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SONG OF THE PASSIONATE MALE
To steer between hate and love is society’s expectation. Yet love and hate form the part of every nation. If to love women too well is suspicious, If to love God is considered superstitious, If to...
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SOME THINK
Some think lack of punctuation means poetry, When it really means the reverse. If you have to guess about the smallest thing, This makes the poem worse. Poetry is not a trick of not quite...
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THE OTHER
You should note this poem is easy to translate. First—and maybe, not last—I’m an American. All my lovers have been assimilated immigrants. I, too, am an assimilated immigrant— I was born here, but my...
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SKINNY
Can someone with a big, thick, neck write poetry? Or is poetry for the weak and skinny? Race or gender is not the issue; It’s a matter of fat and muscle tissue. Can someone with a big fat ass...
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TO BE A HAPPY, ATTRACTIVE WOMAN
To be a happy, attractive woman is impossible. You must be a painter—so that your face Brings out, and combines, your kind features with subtle grace. You must be a poet—so that your voice seems Not...
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THE THIRD
“Immortality” —Diotima Everyone knows the beautiful will be loved, no matter what the beautiful do, But if you look a little closer, Rodrigo, you’ll find this isn’t true. If you don’t love, you will...
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AN INSULT IS AN INSULT IS AN INSULT
Let us make a careful study of insults! says the learned man. All of us insult another every time we can, By not listening for a second or two, By speaking of love, but out of turn. And by insulting...
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ROOTING FOR LOVE
Frankenstein and King Kong Were like all lovers: wrong. Horror is a love and love is a horror. We are not good enough to love her. We are beastly. We take her by the hand And the rivers rushing are...
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SHE TOLD YOU!
She told you, and now you are telling us In poetry which is helpless. Every thought earns a thoughtless reply. There’s no philosophy which does not its opposite imply. Is there no conviction? No...
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WHO IS EVERYBODY?
Who is everybody? And why does physical appearance mean so much? Except when it means nothing at all? And the former judgement we had of looks makes us feel petty and small? And we settle into an...
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INDIAN POETRY —JUNE
In his poem, “Ugly Histories,” Shrenik Mutha recounts, without trying to be overtly poetic, husbands slapping wives within his family. their histories are shameful. I will write them even if they...
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NEAR AND FAR
Near and far have personalities. Far is melancholy and peaceful. Far is thoughtful. I like far. Once I met someone who was like a distant star. Last night she was in my dream, Sitting at a desk, at...
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FAME
You cannot serve both poetry and fame. A poet is a whore to now—or always the same. If you want your books to be read More than you love to write, you are dead. If you seek fame, you are not you—...
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TO LOVE ONE AND ONE ONLY
I saw something today, Or was it yesterday? Far away. Silly nature, with her bees and flowers, The sexes mingling during appointed hours, Breeding nature in wild disarray; But I want only her to stay....
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A GOOD MAN
A good man is hard to find. One day he finds you. And you don’t know what to do. Your father was not a good man, And all those creeps certainly were not. But the good man, too, makes you feel caught....
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THE TROUBLE WITH THE GOOD
The trouble with the good is, in people, it’s utterly mixed with the bad. Your neighbor, with his lawnmower and his published ethics, is absolutely mad. The mother, of unassailable virtue, who sends a...
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FATHER’S DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY
Father’s Day is Mother’s Day. She allowed me to be a father With her permission and her love— Which I hardly deserved, a callous nobody. All daughters deserve praise on Father’s Day. I became a father...
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HAPPINESS
Drones separate them, the happy combine work and play. On the secret to happiness there’s really nothing more to say. In matters of genius and love, the formula is the same. Lovers combine and share....
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THE ATTRACTION FORMULA
The attraction formula is simple: 1 + 1 = 2. When two people are mutually in love with each other, the happy result is 2. This happens in the beginning of love. What eventually happens, as most people...
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WHY DID SHE LEAVE ME
Aiming at the truth, I forgot to do something, And for someone I loved, this failure to do What I forgot, had more meaning than even the true. It showed a character flaw More meaningful than my solid...
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