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“Orpheus in Athens” by Jack Spicer
The boy had never seen an honest man. He looked among us every night he said. He eyed each stranger like Diogenes And took him with his lantern into bed. He’d probe the stranger’s body with that light Search every corner of his flesh and bone But truth was never there. He’d spend the night…
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Elegy for, by /r/Poetry
“The thoughtless World to majesty may bow Exalt the brave, & idolize Success But more to Innocence their Safety owe Than Power & Genius e’er conspired to bless” -Thomas Gray a fancy ballerina human connection is a fancy ballerina human connection is littered with crystals How do you grieve for a profile picture? Life is…
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Meditation on a Lamp’s Reflection
Sandpaper tin reflection Alternate lines of age and waves From what optical cauldron, of cold correlative connection, Three sisters of sanitary sane wage can weigh. Drums do disrupt the aural presentation, particle collision, Of tan ten point game (Blood trickles like from a spout to funeral cup Or black and blue Jack genteel, In thee…
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wikipedia poem, no. 5
He is better known by his stage name sexual attractants—“A Small Village”—or pheromones Found with several species of brown algae Such as Colonel Eamon “Ned” Broyl, the American rapper A complex chemical compound naturally present in freshwater environments Now included in the Southeast statistical region First noticed off Howard County, the formula of dictyopterene A…
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wikipedia poem, no. 3
yuan base account of the renminbi kuai modern, foreign—official land ROYAL film, television, though blind in one eyea photograph of an elementary school teacher shooting as a hobbyhis first test: purchase two Americans, two Europeans, fashion a mademoiselle, commute with minimal renminbi four miles between Los Angeles and New York. Photograph the first celebrity—Albert Brooks eating…
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wikipedia poem, no. 2
With weaponsWithout weaponsprincipled firmness—body first the thing the master has not saidforce, reaction, opponent—hand, elbow, kicks, escape and levering attack and defense sculpted against wrestling—with drastic violencechoking from behind—knife and sword against students armed opponents, long, short, trains the body first, then the mind.
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wikipedia poem, no. 1
Malmesbury born and died ascended philosopher-priest feather-rich 1651 daemon on absolute sovereign right of individualequality of manartificial character, order legitimate political power where matter lasts, motion, obedienceobeying influence
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[You’re a fucking p]
You’re a fucking p lum of the self ish—I can see down your shirt. Moss predawn across liquid eye lid intimates illness and promise and premise—I can see up your nose. How many YouTube views until you cross over? Have you ever cared about your first love? Statistically speaking: You’ll be dead soon.
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The Best Advice You’ll Ever Receive
Do you believe your thoughts? Hallucination Instinct Insight Prophecy Vision Strength of diction likely the difference between pure movement and a clamshell More at 11. for Ernest Becker
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