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“THE LARGEST-EVER STUDY OF GENETICS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION:” A REVIEW
“Nonbinary!” What a word! It fires up the imagination! Not only that, it’s scientific. And sexy. And freeing. I don’t know anyone who could have anything to say against it. As a word. But even words...
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THE PRIVATE SELF CANNOT BE LOVED
The private self cannot be loved. Celebrity love is really true. Love is only a public love. In private, she’s annoyed by you. Everything offends Our group, and its public membership never ends; You...
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PHYSICAL LOVE IS A DIFFICULT ART
Physical love is a difficult art. The eye judges, and so does the heart. To judge love, love considers a thousand things; Throughout the valley, courtship whispers and runs and sings. A nest for love...
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A DEVIL IS ONE WHO CALLS YOU A DEVIL
A devil is one who calls you a devil. The last accuser becomes the accused. Talk makes all guilt equal; By language fact and falsehood are fused. Book learning must step aside, When the accuser behind...
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I THOUGHT OF A THOUGHT
I thought of a thought: How the world is overwrought With repeating and thinking. Repeating and thinking, I am caught. O turning star! O earth revolving, as my dream taught. And dreaming, I thought,...
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WHEN TWO EMBRACE
When two embrace, It’s not her face and your face Who love, but love’s. Love’s spell Is why you don’t feel well. You sigh, and are vulnerable. It is why she looks beautiful. Love inhabits her eye, And...
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EASTER RESCUE
Life is nothing but time. Life wishes to be alive tomorrow. If all of us had time, there wouldn’t be any sorrow. We seek to wade into the stream, But the stream is cold and rising. The hope is: death...
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JEALOUSY IS THE NUMBER ONE EMOTION
Jealousy is the number one emotion. The queen switches between jealousy and devotion To the other queens, flowers in the ocean, Made of all connected minds who think As one sighing, invisible, ocean....
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ATTACKS
Trained in a world of liberal arts anecdote, the simpler, wider facts Defend themselves easily against your social justice attacks. You decry “Big Oil,” like freezing winds which blow on oil rigs in...
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IMPERFECT EARTH
The seasons are poetry. But also a pain in the ass. Dark and cold November makes everyone cry alas. She loved me when February was freakishly warm, And though I joked about this loving fact, Maybe it...
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THE RACIST
The bold are racist. The timid are not. The bold and timid both die and rot. But the bold are racist. The timid are not. The timid were ordered to put on a uniform, The timid were ordered to go And...
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THOSE WHO LAUGH DON’T LOVE
Those who laugh don’t love. The swift, perpendicular dove Vanishes into a different blue arrangement. Love runs away from humor’s derangement. Without political context, Life does seem insane. But...
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WHAT YOUTH GAVE
What youth gave Old age cannot give. Alas, no more love. We can only live. We can live inside our life for hours, And smell for years the remembered flowers. We feel the sunlight on our skin. We can...
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YOU DON’T THINK I’M THAT STUPID, DO YOU?
Philosophy is puzzling. Comedy’s a wink. The behavior of your lover Will push you to the brink. A persian diplomat decides The secret oil and debt we drink. Suits argue politics, Jobs, and trade...
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WHAT YOU FEEL TODAY
It’s good to be emotional about a reasonable thing, For then both emotion and reason defend it. Everything reasonable and good Will still be hated, if it’s misunderstood, So emotion should be its...
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FRIENDSHIP IS NOT GOOD
Friendship is not good. It will rival love and confuse love But it is not nearly as good. Friendship is not okay. I need to hate awhile to be in love. So go away. To be a friend allows some things To...
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TO A WOMAN WHO HATES TRUMP
What is greater than you? Everything. Marriage vows: saying you may not love, Circumstances: loveless and sure of it, too, Choice: preventing your children, Your childless death sighing in you,...
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THE BEST DRUG
When I’m really angry, I’m drunk. I lose all sense of time; I’m not afraid to express myself, I write a poem right away, Writing in a fury, not caring if it rhymes. I’m not afraid of anyone. Drunk, I...
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WORDS OF A MODEST PRIEST
Nothing is, but what it’s doing. Women who shut down as women Are commonly referred to as “women” By every kindly and learned reformer Who wants more rights for “women.” But how can you enfranchise...
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THE PERSIAN
Here’s the scene where the woman beats up the man. You have makeup and a camera, so all you need is a plan. The world cannot be other than what it is. In our hearts we know this. A man did what he...
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