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THE BEAUTY I CAN’T HAVE
The beauty I can’t have is this moon Which will sink below the horizon soon. The air of this June evening by the ocean. Big roses. Trees. And my emotion. The beauty I can’t have is tall. Excuse me. I...
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THE LEFT
The Left has an agenda you’re not allowed to touch. Feel. Please don’t think too much. Sacrifice for others, and the others are here. They are not far away. And enemies, too, are near. The enemies are...
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HOW I FUCKED UP EVERYTHING
By lingering on her eyes for a moment too long, There followed a relationship that was completely wrong. I read that eye contact is better than personality or looks. Thank you. Stupid books Reading...
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THE STRANGER GLIMPSED
Drunk on a cigarette and the night I had a thought like a white light: Love is wild poetic thoughts in the mind. Love is neither physical, nor conversation, nor being kind. Love is wild poetic...
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THE ONE I LOVE ISN’T LOVED
The one I love isn’t loved. She Doesn’t even read my poetry. Strangers read my lines, Knowing the what, but not for whom, it pines. She is behind a wall And doesn’t care for me at all. If this is the...
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SHE CALLED ME “GRAVES”
She called me “Graves” in a dream last night. I forgot she used to call me that. She was sometimes romantic when I served her food. I was always romantic; she was rarely in that mood. She had a smile...
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TODAY, ON THIS BORING DAY
Today, on this boring day, More information is flooding your brain Than your life can possibly contain. A song you’ve never heard, which could have been yours, Comes from some restaurant, Fleeting...
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EVERYTHING IS OUR PRISON
Everything is our prison. When in your doom, you fall, Ha, think how it was Newton who knew it all, Who discovered the universal law, Not one thing—everything kills you in purple, white, tooth, and...
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YOU ENJOY SMOKING BY STOPPING
You enjoy smoking by stopping, So when you come back to it the nicotine kick is new. You tried to explain this to me In terms of love, when we were lovers, but I just felt insulted by you. Now I know...
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THE RED MOON
She will hate you until she is dead, And the burning moon will always be red Unless it fly up in the blue, Pale, white and oblivious to you. Why is it red? It shines through the atmosphere. Hate and...
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THE BEATLES
After failing auditions, George Martin Decided to take them on Simply because they were funny. Really? How does that translate into love songs making money? Are comedians good musicians? Perhaps. But...
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YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS HATING THE NORMAL
Your biggest mistake was hating the normal. Well, you didn’t know what the normal was. And so your rebellion was unwise. You confused eccentric costume for the normal and its disguise. Since the...
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ALL THINGS MAKE US LOVE
The shape of a hand, the hip Which swings beneath a dress, The smoothness of a brow, an upper lip, A plea marked by intelligence and distress, An eye which sparkles in our direction, A nonchalance, a...
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INDIAN POETRY—JULY
Welcome to another installment of Indian Poetry, where Scarriet briefly engages each month with 7 contemporary poets from India who write in English. For the English-speaking reader, World Letters,...
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IT WAS YOUR FATE NOT TO KNOW
It was your fate not to know She was at the airport. You had to go Right away. And you didn’t. She almost didn’t wait, But you’ll never know she was there, and not to know this fact is your fate;...
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WHY IT’S ALL FUCKED UP
The human is a ridiculous species, Pushing out babies as it pushes out feces. The definition of the soul? Simply that which understands the whole, And with this understanding forgives the whole sorry...
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NO NO. I REALLY AM A WOMAN.
I hate to be the one to say this, Since I am a woman in the body of a man, And if the poem says this because it can, Please don’t be offended or sad, Even with your smothering mother, your absent dad;...
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WHY ARE THERE THESE OBVIOUS TRUTHS
Why are there these obvious truths we somehow never see? Why don’t you see the obvious, which is terribly obvious to me? Why do you court ignorance, and not study the history? Why dance a certain...
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OH I FOUND THAT LOVE
I need to explain my obsessive love. Nature makes women passive, Yet in control, slowing the aggressive rush of the foolish male. I’m not aggressive. Okay, no big deal; let the women be aggressive....
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NOW I UNDERSTAND
Now I understand The endless grains of sand; I understand why There is endless sky. I know why when I walk along, There is endless bird song, Why a lake is not the last lake, And why forever and...
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