Joseph M. Gerace
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Dining Rooms Don’t Dine (A Discussion on Health Care in America)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 512 governments don’t don’t govern men america must precisely shame our nation into contemporary amazon american culture antagonistic stone glow health care sizzling republic swing together with the future of word america tyranny woolcapped proposal revolution overthrow the glue that choice of false rule be it tolerable tolerable tolerable tolerable tolerable crush…
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“What Rings But Can’t Be Answered” by Rebecca Lindenberg
You are beautiful as a telephone, colors of bone, rocket ship, and cocktail lounge— Hmm, says the neon sign, starting an unfinishable thought. Where do we go from here? I’m a balloon, each minute you don’t call is a breath you blow into me. I want to be the crackers in your soup, I want…
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Anti-Villanelle
Wikipedia Poem, No. 513 never trust a lawman a tragic figure a brass roman pendant hooked upon a poke a magic recursive idol this brass poet oinked by the academy of american pedants click here to sniff at other work from poets click here to hang either/or an exclusive commission for the academy of american…
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Nice Work If, Surrounded By If
Wikipedia Poem, No. 511 you can only spit between offices or still never rhyme versions all over life magazine up reader teeth full of mouths taste life now’s the time reader
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Did You Mean Más o Menos?
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from Percival Everett in “The Art of Fiction No. 235”
Everett: “I remember loving Lewis Carroll from an early age, and not just “Through the Looking-Glass” and “Alice” but the syllogisms and a book on logic. And then I remember quite well, early on, reading something I thought I shouldn’t be reading, Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage”, which I got from my father’s shelf. I think…
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From “On Motorcycles” by Frederick Seidel
… “On the lyrical state highways of Vermont I blatted and roared, up and down through the gears, at eighty, at a hundred and something, at much more than a hundred and something miles an hour. The motorcycle had a relatively long wheelbase and felt absolutely solid in a straight line, despite the shaft-drive, and…
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The Internet Appears in the Morning Like a Hand / Full of Cashews and Coconut Meat
Wikipedia Poem, No. 508 from your genderlesque moiré two water suns train invasive things the percieved field is most like my clause before stolen ice cream in order to think like singing deploy textbook masturbation thighs swing across the marketplace air like hangman powerful free diogenes sidling cloud crab then off she petals paper dress…
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Trinity (Nuclear Test)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 507 but only therapists remain and projected to have no metaphors i am thinking the impossibly large brick school building the phone call and days ago holding no metaphors i am thinking about what i asked her in first grade the therapist holds the fragile invulnerable dictionary spasms outside the hand and…
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John Berryman
Wikipedia Poem, No. 505 One should promote purchasable things not people. One inspects the grey pain interior. It is said that in a rabbi one discovers the universe’s first wikipedia entry. “My skin itches my skin’s cannibalizing brine,” Henry said. Feel any one discipline is not an obscure witch. I merely because you came on…
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