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Hackensack
After Ron Padgett’s Amsterdam The sky has been paved over by no boats in the Hackensack. In the gutters of River Roadwatery asphalt crumblesbecause it is New Jersey and very unwell. Even the street light thinks filth, withthe sadness of her body her electric mind every minuteand Ken Zisa insidethe house watching his Yankeesinning after…
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‘For a Moment’ by Ron Padgett
It’s funny howif you just let goof things they will come toyou. That is to saysometimes. So what good is such ageneralization?Ah, it makes you feel good to saysuch things fromtime to time, as if you actuallyand really and trulyknew something! Source: Padgett, Ron. Collected Poems. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 2013, p. 415.
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Agamemnon and Clytemnestra(‘ ‘)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 950 blessed her factthat no one believed her and darkness fell this little temple snake little lick her agamemnon fell in love with the prophecy clytemnestra weighed herself and blessed her fact with a gift foreseeing the gates of troy during the prophecy clytemnestra denied the desert island foreseeing birds gift of…
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‘Sometimes they have lost their country and in their heart it feels as if they have lost something big.’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 949 my g pen all you don’t mean assassins looking saving up neither you saw it coming my chattering to you must be some kind of the short poem young many-legged machine that you don’t shitting against something to write this is bidirection only ambient words to you don’t eat tou bring…
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‘Royalty’ by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. John Ashbery
Royauté Un beau matin, chez un peuple fort doux, un homme et une femme superbes criaient sur la place publique. «Mes amis, je veux qu’elle soit reine!» «Je veux être reine!» Elle riait et tremblait. Il parlait aux amis de révélation, d’épreuve terminée. Ils se pâmaient lun contre l’autre. En effet ils furent rois toute…
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Parallel Sunsets Hidden in the Head of the Word
Wikipedia Poem, No. 948 i’m the only one who tells me when the poem calls that poem the pancake color of my charged-up fingernails that were no rhyme scheme your head was a poem called lookiat charging burn of my fingers that was the intellectual me where i am i am seeing the poem doesn’t…
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Where Are the Socially Conservative Women in This Fight?
Wikipedia Poem, No. 947 middle-aged washings the care has been worried in labor all spelling drunk men of consequence not of lake nor lee and helping where force pays in target numbers and that’s a grant at those free of lyric add on experience now, who attacks the stop-tiered fields? like lee like lake healthy…
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Topless in Purple Gloves
Wikipedia Poem, No. 946 one could not cope with his no one could not ask for his no one could know every human name every name every human poem whomever however one copes with his freedom chantal joffe i did no one not once ask for ever human nature asks for every possible poem in…
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Topless in Purple Gloves
Wikipedia Poem, No. 945 if names exist at alllike the intellectual propertyof men toplessin purple gloves theni did then i did notno one could not ask forno one could not hunger forintellectual property could nottop like intellectual propertythe burning wickchantal joffe did not ask for thisno one couldno one could notall the intellectual propertyof burning…
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Love Yrself
Wikipedia Poem, No. 944 protagoniser the crying on 22 april 2003—9451 days that we million related to nabokov’s imperfect savior trim and psychoanalysis between—presides over act—if i look at the morning assachusettsnovel milyukov rushdie tragedy. one death is a translator of russia and motivate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate appropriate…
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