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LOVE NOT ONLY LOVES, IT JUDGES
Love not only loves, it judges, And this is why love fades away, And only the cigarette butts from yesterday Remain—after you cry, and plead, and say what you need to say. Only the poet who sings a...
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THE BORDER IS ALL
As soon as you begin reading this, you’ve crossed Into it. This poem exists because you are able to cross Into it. Otherwise it wouldn’t exist. Existence requires borders. Everything. Even a list. Why...
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THE INNOCENT CHILD
A chickadee will never see How a blind composer took her phrase, and added to it a melody— A famous tragic song of love for all Who love the difficult love, which holds us all in thrall. The bird on...
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CATS ARE ACTRESSES
Cats are actresses. Dogs are porn stars. I recently saw lonely women compared to dogs In a woman’s poem—what do you expect from poets? Their moral apologies, their moral ambiguities, and shame, As...
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MARS STOOD NEXT TO THE MOON
Mars stood next to the moon, Dwarfed by her size and light, The vivid red of Mars neither large nor bright, A point beside the moon—brightening the night. The moment I glanced these two together, I...
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PSYCHOLOGY
My son wants to study psychology. I always had an interest in what Makes people tick. My brother and I would talk for hours. What You had to do to make it through and be a happy person. That Was an...
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WHY RHYME IS BEST
“I know in one step. You, in two. You think. I simply love you.” —“Love Not Only Loves, It Judges” Tom Graves Immediacy and infinity are two sides of the same coin. The mysterious connection between...
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IT HAPPENED
It happened over there—back over there, She said—pointing to the far mist Surrounding the mountain— Where inside the mountain, a cold lake Surrounded by rock, a lake Where its one species of fish Eats...
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THESE CONGRESSMEN CANNOT BE POETS
These congressmen cannot be poets. Poetry does not follow money Or the distribution of money. Poetry lives in a realm of dreams Where money is not money. Where nothing is what it seems. Poetry is not...
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WE SCAN THE NEWS TO SEE
We scan the news to see If the criminals are being punished, And when they were caught, and how. You don’t need to read the news. The guilty are suffering for what they did. Right now. We scan the...
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WHEN I LOVED IT WAS ONLY TO LOVE
When I loved it was only to love, It was not to see the moon, or the five stars, Or feel, in my hand, ever so slightly, the sweat of your hand, Or be at the beginning of a long line of cars, Or be a...
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POETRY IS THOUGHT, PROSE IS INCIDENT
THE REASON there are so few good poets is not difficult to understand. The poet is sensitive to an extreme degree, and because of this, makes a big deal out of the small. This is both a gift and a...
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POE AND BAUDELAIRE: THE KISS AND THE SNEER
“Woman, a slave and yet vainglorious, stupid and unashamed in her self-love” -Baudelaire “She was a child and I was a child in this kingdom by the sea” -Poe * Women with skin of ivory, and beautiful...
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HAPPY IS VERY SMART
Happy is very smart, and this is why There is so much injustice. The miserable die in misery. Unhappiness cannot think; Therefore, the miserable cannot be happy. Before thought—sweet thought!—is...
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WHY LOVE?
The educated reader of today is certainly aware that love poetry appeals to the popular taste, and probably wonders occasionally if there is a critical, definitional connection between love and...
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POETRY, ROSALINDA, WILL NOT HELP
Poetry, Rosalinda, will not help your causes. Poetry is not speech, but the delicate pauses Between the speech which finds its way In blinding light or darkness—saying what it says by what it doesn’t...
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TEASING: A NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL LOOK
Teasing is a psychological state which is crucial to understanding human nature, and yet, as far as I know, it has never been given its due. Teasing is ubiquitous—most of us tease, consciously, or...
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INDIAN POETRY OCTOBER
India is just like America. Why does it seem this way, as I review Indian poetry in English? Scarriet continues the project inspired by Linda Ashok. Welcome to October. (This 7-poet-reviewed series...
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I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU
Dear Rosalinda. Stop coming into my café where I write poetry Wearing leather. Your black boots with elaborate buckles? Excellent. “I don’t want to see you if I can’t have you” is not what I meant....
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YOUR ATTITUDE
Your attitude is terrible. No, That’s not it. You are all attitude. You know, all one sees now are relationship Videos on the “narcissistic” personality, On how exactly men and women love differently....
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