Joseph M. Gerace
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Personal Poem About My Sterility and How All I Wanted Was To Be The Good Father I Never Had
“I try / not to think about the animal / rearranged in unnatural configuration / its head visible in profile / one eye / refracting the last light it glimpsed” Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Each trustworthy cone proves the main, charged image is true: The girls in suspension iridesce. They paint drivers license numbers with wrists…
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Heavy Petting (Heavy Drinking)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 676 please show me anywhere machines are pouring out over plato’s erosion reiterating: read this dead dubious pink ruin my television show oh, pungent amphitheater! what is poetry for? oh pungent amphitheater poetry for what? oh, pungent amphitheater what a question machines pound the ground through string you never notice how all…
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Cortinarius Claricolor
Wikipedia Poem, No. 675 title plato reading erosion title coiled vibrating string boy reading how did he hide so michael keaton in birdman of you each i’m the wrong person to ask i don’t actually know the man i’ve heard his name mentioned in passing you’d have to know the particulars experience every idle plot…
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A Historic Tax Heist
Wikipedia Poem, No. 673 polluting work as a true-jurist staining dark-blue originally in reference to a snowy stickler foreign or true white with a fine pruina who researches without any commonwealth someone who researches pure simple strigose hair opposed to applying by an academic odor and taste no distinctive legal-skin of america and pure simple…
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‘Today’ Show Fans React: ‘I’m Very Disappointed in Him’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 672 one hears events scream it’s warm enough for so long mr and mrs who—ha ha ha
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Whiteacre with God of Love
Wikipedia Poem, No. 671 the is that makes art but the gone that twines dimension as has the gold-treated cheap not by its job to lead us too but so easily apparent any old color—as too easily apparent—and such a color but this will not be so easy color but the way he became a…
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Positive Style Witch (Stephanie Burt)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 669 bono ich ichor be the dog’s hat an ichor lana brain 19th the hittite lovers whale-sea manninguage show me any persona and i will find you opportunity love lost was manhattan sweat an indo-european in you lover we’ll see language has a way a dog’s hat is a distinct memory branch…
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Eventually, a neck without knowing
The only true love is unadorned and personal. Sometimes people listen, sometimes people don’t. All success is anecdotal. Most of what we’re sold is just whistling, neon feces exploding at high speed out of a t-shirt cannon. The habit I work is this: Tune out the negative & trite — pay it no mind. Focus…
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Big Knife, Improperly Used
Wikipedia Poem, No. 668 you will not beyond whats dipped in baby comes to say a fantastic code dividentity sacrifice into monastery noun sucked into space cultures hogshead of joy thing moon close who wrote heroism also reflects a dogs hands a heavenly seed opens from them vivisects a pure curve of photosynthetic sweetness glassplain…
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