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PHILOSOPHY AND LOVE ARE DEAD
Socrates tried to tell you love, which creates and desires, Is better than reasonable friendship, putting out all the fires. The quarrel is between poetry and philosophy; What you got wrong is poetry...
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THE CHILD POE
The child says there should be more— More candy, more kittens, more stories At bedtime, more bedtimes, more. More brothers and sisters. The child says We have to go back to the store. The store has...
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DESPERATE
When they like you, you are pleased, But when they like you desperately, This is love, and you don’t like it. The problem is easy to see: You want love, but love only happens desperately. Desperate...
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THE BUILDING CODE OF GOD
The towers are perfect. Hot running water And clean towels on the 73rd floor. And look. The next street over, there are more. Nothing overshadows you like New York City. Even if Beethoven were here,...
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WHAT I CAN NEVER HAVE
What I can never have Is her—when she and I Loved with the same sultry cry In the garden and the leaves. Hidden love, on the run, in the outdoors, Is the best love, no matter what anyone believes. If...
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WE ADORE THESE PICTURES
We adore these pictures of the sun, And from afar, we adore this handsome one, But up-close, in the place where kissing’s done, Everybody’s ugly. From above, trees look like toys stuck in the ground....
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WHEN WE DON’T WANT TO LOVE
Only when her body was ready for a baby Was she horny, and she didn’t want babies— So this made my lover really fucked up. She never said: when I ovulate, I’m horny— It would have made her sound like...
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LOVE HAS A SINFUL MOUTH
What my lover said to me last night No committee or impeachment inquiry Will ever make right. My lover made it her mission to destroy Everything which brings you joy But luckily, only through me. I...
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EVERYBODY’S NICE
Everybody’s nice. You can ask them. But they won’t tell you. They will laugh, But what can they say? Yes, they’re nice. Everybody’s nice. The silent ones, Who don’t know what to do, are nice. The...
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THREE POEMS RANDOMLY NOTICED
The poet Babitha Marina Justin There are no “hit poems.” I’m addicted to singing, humming, or whistling snatches of songs to myself—the pleasure and comfort of music is incalculable. How many people...
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WHY DID SOCRATES LOVER OF TRUTH
Why did Socrates, lover of truth, Hate poetry? Poetry is not scientific proof, But looks like science and its fame: The science of details, aloof, Proud, splendid, phantasmagoric, Making love and...
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TOO MODERN TO FINISH THE MELODY
Too modern to finish the melody, And repeat it a million times in my ears, For months I heard your melody, But melodies will melt in the passing of the years. So when I heard yours on the soundtrack...
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HE’S FUNNY RIGHT AWAY
He’s funny right away. I think a while, and don’t know what to say. He wrote the offending line When he was sober. I drank wine And bitterly assaulted him privately. His smile vanished. And suddenly I...
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I LOVE WHEN I PRETEND TO LOVE
I love when I pretend to love. I love you because you love With wit, and not with love. Love rises In a poem of surprises. The thought that stays ahead of love Defeats love, and enlarges love. I love...
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THE BEAUTIFUL HUMAN RACE
The beautiful human race Has something odd about its beauty: The beauty of the face Is always the same as the beauty of the body. This is not possible. Does this prove beauty is a miracle? How does...
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ASYMMETRY
I stood deciding for a long time Which life? One of appetite, or rhyme? The time I dreamed on that took so long I forgot what I wanted in the song. The time I wasn’t happy Was much longer than when I...
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THE LEAST APART
We swarm over each other like bees Without dignity; “thank you” and “please” Make the office run; Like a kindergarten teacher, the boss is having too much fun. Why don’t they leave me alone? I can...
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ALL WE SEE
This parade of life, all we see, All that is, is death. And life? Life is what will be. What you cannot see, lives— And death? Beware of what it gives; Seeing its gift, you are blind— Invisible...
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MY MOUTH, WITHOUT BREATH
My mouth, without breath, Yesterday, spoke of certain death, And now I lie here, as if to prove Both I and this poem cannot love. But listen, I am still breathing. Every line of a poem must be A...
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I COMPETE AGAINST STUPIDITY
I compete against stupidity. That’s it. Claiming I was too competitive, you had a fit. And now we’re both embarrassed. Our friendship’s over. You lack the wit To see what I’m competing against....
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