poetry
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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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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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John Ashbery, 1927-2017
“Fear of Death” by John Ashbery What is it now with me And is it as I have become? Is there no state free from the boundry lines Of before and after? The window is open today And the air pours in with piano notes In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John, I’ve…
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“Seven Aphorisms” by Alda Merini
I am a furious little bee. ◊ To mistake shit for chocolate is the privilege of the overeducated. ◊ Every man is a friend to his own pathology. ◊ I never speak when I am not turned on. ◊ The gun I point at my head is called poetry. ◊ Every tibia loves its fibula.…
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“Da Aforismi e Magie” by Alda Merini
Sono una piccola ape furibonda. ◊ Confondere la merda con la cioccolata é un privilegio delle persone estremamente colte. ◊ Oguno é amino della sua patalogia. ◊ Non parlo mai se non sono accesa. ◊ La pistola che ho puntato alla tempia si chiama Poesia. ◊ Ogni tibia ama la sua fibula. ◊ Alda Merini…
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On The Media
warm we link arms before the brawl breaks our ranks we touch again ineffectual fist to ineffectual face we are touched again to be peeled apart sprayed toward sobbing and held again in rapturous pain do you remember now singing by torchlight? do you remember the strange sounds of which we are capable? the moan…
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“Mocha Panties” by Arielle Greenberg
You have your skinny pants that you never wear but that are the barometer. You have your fat pants that you wear more than you need to. You have your period pants that are dark and thick and forgiving and comforting. You have your period panties. I have a new resolution not to wear my…
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Three Feet
Big chocolate My wife found one on the internet With only one foot
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