Joseph M. Gerace
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Think Deeply: Read This
Adam Etinson in The New York Times takes a fascinating look in the social-mirror at the 20-year-old John Stuart Mill’s crippling crisis of purpose: “There is something comical about Mill’s self-implosion; it’s as if he had spent years looking forward to a sailing trip only to suddenly realize, upon embarkation, that he hated boats. “It is also…
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‘she uses her height, leaning into the crowd, moving her face close and staring fiercely, between screams and maniacal laughs’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 609 windspill sail between make it surreal easy name a standup comic that could be anyone so we’ll make it easier name a standup comic called salvador didion née carlin ok that could be anyone so we’ll make it sleazier name a standup comic remover a 40-year spill spot a 50-year turn…
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Hungry Science Fiction Poem
Wikipedia Poem, No. 608 they will open into their relationship sons and crafts projects of home again in the phaedo alone electro-paternal modeling play-doh flour water salt boric acid mineral oil lovers to him fathered him in terms of toys and taste a gift begat from identity projected paternal compound retail groups account of the…
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Our Point of View
Wikipedia Poem, No. 607 i meant to say something nice about you say social justice warrior like it’s a bad thing nice about you one cannot stop no matter the temperature i meant to say something nice about you to you skin is the perfect procedure i meant to say something nice the opposite…
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Mycology
abstemious and baronial the gods know what’s meant a hollywood party one cannot stop halfway through the procedure
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Ivy, After Forgetting, Again
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In Which, Further Reading, No. 1
Marcus Wicker’s Silencer is very good. I’ve spent a lot of time with its poems, yet it’s not enough. Wicker is sharp in this interview with Kathleen Rooney at the Poetry Foundation. You will come out more alive after reading both/either. Wicker: “Poetry won’t save your life, at least not without (self) action. But a well-wrought language…
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Bottlebells
Wikipedia Poem, No. 603 jake brake mass transportation i hear their teeth am nude amongst blood who won’t pay attention bucolic clangors suspend themselves behind the slow rise and in their teeth hear crickets terror to rise and the sound of commerce jake brake mass bottlebells* ringing some behind terror some afore some despise this…
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