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THE POET KNOWS
The poet knows, that in the act of creation, The vague inkling, the germ, the seed, of the poem Is more important than the poem. The shadowy idea, ready to move Across the manifestation of articulate...
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TELL ME ABOUT YOUR LOVE
Tell me about your love Who inspired all these poems I read, day after day; Give me her identity in the crudest terms, Name, age, background, habits, picture, Come on, what do you say? True, a certain...
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TIME GOES BACK WITHOUT YOU
Time goes back without you. It is interested in what all that going forward meant. It finds the two of you—you and her—there you are, Looking as you were. The lake. The trees. The cemetery’s descent....
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THAT LIFE
Her nap went on forever— Is forever tedious or sublime? The sublimity of forever Will be tedious—a sublimely dull time. I don’t think she was bored, When all afternoon, she slept. She had been bored,...
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YESTERDAY EVERY DAY
The invasion of the past Looks like it’s going to last. I had the best, but you went away. The winter won’t leave. March is repeating February. It’s Yesterday every day. What am I going to do? My mind...
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THE NEW LITERACY
After the child has learned his alphabet and become fluent in their native tongue, when a desire to be a writer takes over, what is the “literacy” which comes next? There are stages of literacy in...
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SOMEONE MUST SAY YOU CAN LOVE BEFORE YOU CAN LOVE
Someone must say you can love before you can love. Love is not the breaking of the law—or the law, Love is what the law permits. Whatever lovers allow Is love. The approval itself, is love. Love does...
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LOVE EXPLAINED
Love is two pathetic losers making themselves feel special. Hate, hurt by the wrongs of the world, is beautiful. Hate, enraged, by wrongs, repairs the wrongs. You’ve lingered here for a day, listening...
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THAT’S THE ONE WHO DOESN’T LOVE
That’s the one who doesn’t love. My love was kindly desire, and when I presented My charm and my libido, she consented. I asked for more intimacy, and she relented. I asked for her song, but she said...
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SEXY NOT SEXUAL
It is late. The calm day Has slid into the milky way And we are warmly surrounded by stars. This warm night with distant voices Makes me think of sex, and choices. The ugly all the way up To the very...
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THIS POEM IS NOT FOR EVERYONE
This poem, as good as I’ve ever written, Is not for everyone. You, for instance, Reputed for—well, some call it poetry— Are jealous, even afraid of me, So you won’t read it, because if you do, You...
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BY DIPLOMATIC INSIGHT AND THESE MYSTERIOUS LANDS
Never you, alone. Alone? No, that’s not what you’ll be. Not even love will love you, alone. Alone, you have thoughts which stretch to eternity. You need safety. Love which protects you. Everyone hears...
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TAKE IT OFF AND PUT IT BACK ON
A woman’s makeup is the world we know. Secrets are nothing. All is show. Darling, take off the sun, and put on the night, Where the stars speak and the shadows are bright. Today I saw a woman applying...
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THOSE WHO WANT TO HURT BUT CANNOT
“They that have power to hurt and will do none” Shakespeare Those who want to hurt, but cannot, Their feeling never expressed with wit, The humorless Marxist who resents the rich, The social wannabe...
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THE BLACK CLOUD
Now it finally comes to this— Never more will the two of us kiss, And my dreams of literary fame Are gone, and all ambitions and writings seem the same, And nothing I read, or feel, seems new. But I...
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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I THINK OF YOU
If you want to know what I think of you, You’ll have to wait for my poem. I admit I thought I knew you By everything you did to me. Poets, who in their poems, use actions and imagery In competition...
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THE EXILED POET
Maybe she’s happy, And she’s happy because of me. That wouldn’t be such a bad plan. I’m sad—you can see from my poetry, But this is the sign of the ultimate man, A smiling gentleman in every sense,...
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NICE
Nice people want to fuck At the drop of a hat. But to be nice, you can’t be doing that. And anyway, you can be nice, but your life is shitty And you’re not that pretty. And the pretty and the...
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I LOVED WHAT DID NOT CREATE
I loved her. I did. How could I not know it? But she didn’t want children, and she wasn’t a poet. I loved what did not create. But the world is limited. I couldn’t wait. I should have loved you. I...
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A DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL LOVES A DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL
A department official loves a department official. The department known to be the most beautiful Has noticed something unofficial. Filled with beautiful officials, this department Gives every other...
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