alcoholism
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The Ruins
Wikipedia Poem, No. 921 I decided to use the Pine Barrens site as a piece of paper and draw a crystalline structure over the landmass rather than on a … sheet of paper. In this way I was applying my conceptual thinking directly to the disruption of the site over an area of several miles.…
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Dear Poets—
Wikipedia Poem, No. 870 saskatchewan, i have—by a mile—the heat of whirlwindthis whirlwind of what i know… after-time gotta study and get on with all the whirlwind heatthis whirlwind of preparing for the heat of the best poems published in saskatchewan o well and study video gamesi have—by a meteor mile—the heat of this to…
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‘The geezer alcoholics in the corner?’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 867 break into air leather man break into air breathe into leather man breathe into air leather jacket licked back hair and steal another man break into leather man don’t break don’t break man don’t break look leather man break it or lose it leather man break the air man pomegranate flower…
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“Ballad of the Savage Tiger” by Li He
No one attacks it with a long lance, No one plies a strong cross-bow. Suckling its grandsons, rearing its cubs, It trains them into savagery. Its reared head becomes a wall Its waving tail becomes a banner. Even Huang from the Eastern Sea,¹ Dreaded to see it after dark, A righteous tiger, met on the road,²…
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Explaining Alcoholism to a Christian Using a Metaphor about Photosynthesis
Wikipedia Poem, No. 787 disaster hammers choice diving into memory’s wreck reveals god an addict produce and improve think and civil war come you groundbreaker annual depending flashes of green tumble the fruiting lift of its time prisms individual residents hole up at the corymb mall the follow-up between younger pews saint george slays a spray…
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This is America
Wikipedia Poem, No. 783 charms revive glass god one quits plague of glass or question alternative: crashing diamonds or questions serenity prayer for IEDs collect the alternative crashing strikes itchy neighbor very-real hand serendipitous charms down into the glass prayer for the alternative crashing diamonds or question weather in the jar full of god question…
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Digesting the One Perfect Cherry Blossom (Ōtomo no Tabito’s Problem Drinking)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 782 were delicious so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and so sweet and which you were of being for breakfast for breakfast for breakfast for breakfast for breakfast forgive me they were probably saving for breakfast for breakfast…
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Map of the World
Wikipedia Poem, No. 746 shy piñata horizon of mascara slurps a burst expectant cross mangles the black one purple swoosh at eye-level burst piñata down-filled custom spilt dirty swinging watcher black one purpled shoulders slap black one purple air of fire blink mascara burst piñata the poets’ key falls into air-fire down across simile like…
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Please let me sleep
“The bike I was thinking of buying belonged to a friend. Before I could buy it, I crashed on it, riding as a passenger behind my friend, with a beautiful girl squeezed in between us, three on a bike, a Triumph, going far too fast, all of us drunk, around Place de la Concorde, and…
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Monadnock
Wikipedia Poem, No, 691 in some countries hair pilcrow blossom falls she is you remember that a good husband avoids a cross time bothers neither alluvial husband nor empire husband nor backwoods husband nor line them up on my own thread across time i return to my collapsing honey-clings to my life my wife that…
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