poetry
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Good Parenting
Lack of night now Vandalism: What’s funnier Squash or a substantial orange yam? In a manger? Spaghetti Wake up with a headache Not the night before, but With death: What a dire truck Skulls skulls skulls Every man, doves, In a mugshot Looks like my father For someone so obsessed Shacked, dated, bored I…
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Infidelity
Her catholic harness In the lamp-lit corner A black habit Praying for what I’ll never know
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Pre-Columbian Parlor Trick
A white man stripped nude in February snow A white man bisected and disemboweled A white man lowered into a boiling fin de siècle kettle A white man, a nail gun, a scoreboard A white man, his radius and ulna strapped to the rough cut stump of a boxelder maple, anterior artery up A white…
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Woman Ironing
I watch Picasso work The granite blob of gray-blue Into a void, if I said this out loud He would spit in my mouth and Curse my mother who hasn’t yet been born Her arms are returning, an honest day’s work, I am quiet, Sweat, sweet black eyes, Longing, a gauntness as from a fountain…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 106
among us knew many boys a half dozen? she was a retired pant and the fridge is full The tech tee fridge is full of bedrooms The window is open To Hackensack will you jump on my trampoline? The lights have sparrows and among us knew many boys a half dozen? said she was A…
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Lilting Towards Bethlehem
Shoulders too narrow Ankles wrapped in fat Where art for your bones What color your breast Bent toward a queer pouch Straight to a sneer slouch Beer luge and bar stool Oxblooded law school, teleporter blues Content is King Google bench in the zoo Zelig demands 400 words on Transformers 2 His diary a cook…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 103
1 the ceremony of home what bastion of Kanye said behind his moment I may have not read rallying, rallying behind a poet of serious political debate the MTV Video Music Awards support a savvy e-seller of lengthy speech what bastion for sale on eBay 2 an unusually lucrative poet “C’est la guerre” was a…
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“After postmodernism”
After postmodernism I tilt my head 45 degrees the fresh asphalt Changes color from black to black Adam feels very strongly: This Is impossible Ben and Michel differ on the meaning of episteme I, however, remain positive: They know. Positivism is relative to yr investment’s capital relief I earned my only A in symbolic…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 102
most cups from Israel charged with tea planetary symbolism such as outsider colors fairly typical: tea and tea-leaf coffee grounds sitting for study revealing the cups of symbols coffee cultures patents the French work with the saucer clockwise from ramparts patterns-to set patterns do not correspond with the front halves of snakes enmity of tea…
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