poetry
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Moyecques
The super ball is a comet rips through passive air. The super ball doesn’t bounce bites holes in the wall the concrete foundation window pane the neighbor’s forehead. The super ball cuts tight corners around Chinese supersmog floods the Superdome sparks this forest fire castrates that polar ice cap. The super ball is a nuclear…
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“I Was Taught Three” by Jorie Graham
names for the tree facing my window almost within reach, elastic with squirrels, memory banks, homes. Castagno took itself to heart, its pods like urchins clung to where they landed claiming every bit of shadow at the hem. Chassagne, on windier days, nervous in taffeta gowns, whispering, on the verge of being anarchic, though well…
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wikipedia poem, no. 25
“Harbingers aggrieve the event surviving punk kids who take to imagineer politics. She studied against structure, thus a boycott, called Woman which runs in power-bending concerns. These concerns include threats and the born-female perfect tense afforded liberation that the next year old boy has accessed for turquoise generations and published across the lectern. She who…
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wikipedia poem, no. 24
the explicit camphor find it two notes a major third interval then the cuckoo i know the unfading green camphor when i hear it do you two notes a major third interval and then the idea of an owl juxtaposed by the cuckoo the meantime the shuttering engine it all adds up to a subtle…
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“Sul Llobregat” by Eugenio Montale
Dal verde immarcescibile della canfora due note, un intervallo di terza maggiore. Il cucco, non la civetta, ti dissi; ma intanto, di scatto, tu avevi spinto l’acceleratore. from Collected Poems 1920-1954
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wikipedia poem, no. 23
How to Deal with Failure in the Age of Reddit known as reductio ad absurd this platonic object but not exist yes, if you are existence then count main characters certain certain certain sensory (see threatfulness) textual this perfectly specific here in fact the black takes a bicycle the computer the computer edits the population…
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“The music is beautiful it takes me”
The music is beautiful it takes me a long time to see that this is besides the point. József Lendvay is beautiful like the music masculine affirmative embracing what is sad although I do not know from stories told to me but the music speaks and I understand it. But he says it and I…
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Stanza XVI from ‘Stanzas in Meditation’ by Gertrude Stein
Should they call me what they call me When they come to call on me And should I be satisfied with all three When all three are with me Or should I say may they stay Or will they stay with me On no account must they cry out About which one went where they…
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“The sky is a very bad parent”
The sky is a very bad parent impatient, grinding its teeth, hyperventilating as its baby wahs and wails and flails and vomits all over its parent’s prettiest things and the parent grabs its little darling a little too tight a taut smile a slight tear traps it under an arm and marches into the kitchen…
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Five Days Outside of London
I don’t know why apples fall where don’t care for candy or cats &, no, I didn’t catch that show, no Compelled to connect I put my hand up against the cold windowpane a bullet of shock runs towards my heart bulls graze in the street so many zoos lost in time we’re more afraid…
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