Joseph M. Gerace
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Self-Portrait (Memnon’s Remix)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 652 i know what precisely to say do i say a few years back what’s right and how much of love is high cheek bones and how many high cheek bones gatherd here how low the creek groans bones and how much left i felt the thin cracks in what’s right and…
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Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (Self-Portrait)
look first that’s the point how does algae grow so deeply photosynthetic am i asking you or am i muttering moon mad either way i see myself of course in that master’s eyes surrounded by all the thin cracks in the pain the crow’s feet tighten around the rosette wire at the bottom of the…
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Celebrity Birthdays
Wikipedia Poem, No. 650 starred dawn mid-stream much i also within the queer film canon dawn starred war materials spoil impair disfigure scar national psyche all up in my candy he discovers what shall i hog tie and hang from the ceiling to tease with flame eviscerate back of the head mere’d and marred door…
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Portrait of Shiva as 1,500 Terabytes of Genetic Code
Wikipedia Poem, No. 647 “different animals in the same ecosystem pick up on different environmental signals” diction of distraction far away real but exploding from fiction resource scarcity sacrifice in the newsroom what a thrill to disappear into the lush terrarium of cum dribbled into a kleenex that warm dark drunk feeling of being a…
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We All Lay on the Island Beach Together (Tension)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 649 first ask is it interesting tell the pocket waiter pull-ups skin-tight jeans scent the studio booth to be the hungriest ghost kill in the studio booth smell theorists scent the studio booth save the actor kills in the transcendent idea of brilliant to love basic vanilla body mist scents the…
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Other People’s Poetry: “A Litany for Survival” Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a…
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Orpheus Charming the Animals
Wikipedia Poem, No. 646 A note for readers: Each occurrence of an asterisk in the following poem represents one slow, deliberate breath in through the nose (at least three seconds) and out through the mouth (at least three seconds). Silently count each inhale and each exhale. You are permitted to think about anything at all…
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Portrait of John Berryman
Wikipedia Poem, No. 645 so do i am exhausted in the end of our minds this instead of our minds this instead of our minds instead of our minds this the end of a heavy cold the end minding the cold speaker and spoken to our annual knowing being offered up to us i have…
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Hello I’m Calling to Apologize for Breaking All of the Plates
Wikipedia Poem, No. 644 of ice feed gray demon: have three baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots dipped in baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots dipped in baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots…
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Portrait of John Kelly
Wikipedia Poem, No. 643 of a person of a provision an interview with laura ingraham on slavery this statement that provision what a paragraph in our constitutional fact quiet chief of the man clearly state what you know the x of the matter that provision is known in fact that chief is quite able to…
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