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TO NOT HAVE LOVE IS TO HAVE LOVE
To not have love is to have love, Because everyone knows love is desire. Love you don’t have, but want, is love. This is why I seem cold, with my burning fire. I have love. I have you. Because I have...
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VISTAS
The beauty of the particular scene, If there are streets, or not, or the streets are picturesque, Doesn’t matter. The artist finds shadows and certain perspectives And makes great photos in...
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WHEN WE WRITE A GOOD POEM
When we write a good poem It is we who write the poem It is we—it is really we—even if it seems me, Solitary, glimpsed, standing beneath a tree, Smoking in the cold rain, Is the one writing the...
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YOUR PAJAMAS
Your pajamas were made a thousand years ago In the cool, etruscan shade, By people dreaming of romance and sex. Are thousand year old thoughts of love needlessly complex? Add cold weather and bring in...
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ALL THAT CRAWLS
All that crawls, walks and flies, All that is beautiful, and more beautiful, dies. Love that shoots up in flames of love, like fire, Dies in the fire burning and dying, dies in its own desire. We...
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YOU DO THAT
You add the numbers. You be the secretary. I’ll please the boss and get fat. You make sure things are running correctly. You do that. The swearing-in ceremony was boring. He’s upset. Thanks to you, it...
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I WANT TO SAY NO TO HIM
I want to say no to him Because he has the feeling that all Will say yes to him. He’s beautiful and tall, And neither a woman, nor a man, Can describe him; if you knew Him for a minute, you would want...
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TO NOT BE POPULAR
To not be popular, I made a bad recording of my song, And sent the recording to only the best philosophers Who knew a sad ballad when they were young; All I find interesting, is a little bit wrong....
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POETRY IS A TRANSLATION FROM A LANGUAGE WE DON’T KNOW TO ONE WE MIGHT
From the unknown emerges what the known was meant to be. A carefully scripted version of a perfect me. Take my word for it, these words Are as unfathomable as sea birds Flying very fast across long...
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THE WOMEN HAVE NO EYES AND THE MEN HAVE NO EARS
The women have no eyes and the men have no ears, When it comes to love. The man doesn’t care what the woman hears: Songs and poems belong to others—songs are not what the man fears. The woman will...
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VEILS, HALOS & SHACKLES: INTERNATIONAL POETRY ON THE OPPRESSION AND...
Charles Adès Fishman and Smita Sahay have compiled an heroic anthology of poetry. Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; Kasva Press; Fishman,...
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NOR’EASTER, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
A ravaging storm of rain and wind, On the final Halloween weekend, Empties the streets of this Halloween town. Witch’s hats are blown by the blast. The ghouls of hell are gone at last. The Christian...
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LIFE IS SIMPLE IN LATE OCTOBER
Baseball is more interesting when runs are few. Love is best when I don’t know. And so I love you. I whiff when you throw fast, and when you throw slow. I love you, anyway. You just never know. To...
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YOU ALWAYS KNEW THIS
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Join the mainstream. Independent thought is a dream. Like what other people like, and you’ll survive. The end of philosophy isn’t truth. It’s staying alive. There is...
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WHEN YOU LOSE LOVE
When you lose love, the experience of kindness is painful. You’d rather have them back, disdainful. When you lose love. When you lose love, everything seems trivial and mild. You’d rather have them...
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SAFETY OR LOVE
Choose safety or love. If you think it’s safe, it’s not love— She only pretends to love you. The more you love her, The more she turns to safety— Where paintings and words are a blur. I know, because...
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EVERY ETHNICITY
Every ethnicity has a soul, But only the poet has a soul that is whole. If I could be an ethnicity, which one would I be? None. I would rather write poetry. I could be a Chinese nerd, and love beauty...
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I MADE HER CRAZY
I made her crazy. The broken heart Learns to be crazy as its highest art. After she talks to strangers who look at her and smile, She thinks, I’m crazy, why did I say that, he thought I was crazy all...
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PRUDENCE
Love that’s stupid is not love. Love is betrayed most by love When it loves, but loves stupidly. Love discerns the enemy, And doesn’t let the enemy in. Love that’s stupid isn’t love. It’s sin. She...
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A POEM IS A JOKE WITH A DRY PUNCHLINE
A poem is a joke with a dry punchline. You looked into a divine future that wasn’t. Let’s say she loved you, but now she doesn’t; Love’s not funny, but maybe she never did. A poem fails that cries....
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