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How to Write a Poem (Topography)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 571 radiate what errs as if it’s that simple take words mind nimble blades being best free let them delicate among tantalizing ableness let mind belong let it glide to prayer and grasp the error of being
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Writing Advice: “Eschew rationality, meaning and ‘good taste’.”
If you find yourself unable to write, don’t write. Play with your words. Here’s a great unplanted seed for a writing exercise: Go to your favorite website and find an article that contains a not negligible amount of text. Highlight a paragraph and the copy it to your clipboard. I’ll do this with you. I’m…
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Cause Trouble in the Yard
Wikipedia Poem, No. 521 tent dawn as my tent of a new day as my tent of a new day as through the se sun is rising aboutrustling about sporadically announces the air is cool and begin to adjust the air is rising aboutde my tent i see my tent sporadically announces through the se…
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“Remember: We are our only saviors”
Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer I think he might’ve been our only decent teacher Getting older makes it harder to remember we are our only saviors We’re gonna build something, this summer — The Hold Steady, Constructive Summer
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Toothpaste for the Young Poet
Wikipedia Poem, No. 514 to rescue to operate on the marks of infinity to be transcended against one’s will time rubbed into lather for your opponent every deck underhanded or made gape i’m less jorie grammatically buys a vowel your immediate opportunity tomorrow fidget spinner i promise it’s not you it’s me this working problem…
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Hezutsu Tōsaku (1726-1789)
Affluence—define it as: pickled greens, rice for supper, nice wine, one bottle, modest but never empty Source: Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson. From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Print.
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Gender Politics
Wikipedia Poem, No. 472 to be loved eyes closed of pain it is just like you not like you nothing flat traced with a number two pencil nothing vested in hydrangeas something more like cutting something black ravage to be loved afraid of course cutting a slow-covered kitchen knife something more we will be loved…
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Fuck You Fortune Cookie
Wikipedia Poem, No. 456 to recollect clean one’s head put out out of it forget forgot dismiss dismissed dismiss dismissing missing dismiss dismiss disrecollection of have no recall be un headless put out out of it forget dismiss dismissed disrecollection of have no more of wean one’s head put it out it goes let bygones…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 303
who one is or is one who after evolution is some wholes so one learns to open a door something’s larger whole somehow opens a loch larger whole something pictured oneself through the evolution of wholes somehow a larger who opens one is or becomes bored with nature and explores becoming naturally one does not give…
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