animals
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‘The Damaged Ape’ by Russell Edson
A little piece of the ape’s nostril had fallen off; and then we noticed one of its ears was chipped. On closer examination we saw that one of its fingernails was missing. By this time, of course, we had grown to love the ape, but still we wondered if it shouldn’t be sent back for…
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For All the Vegans I’ve Loved and Consumed (Trendy Modernist Power Play)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 991 ONE of animals as moral consumers justify their sight moral consumption of animals and you don’t fry up this fragmented animal as moral constraint either hence we dig up this fragmented animal class in anti-intellectual stories under wonder what’s moral consumption? the poets are moral consumers mutatis mutandis what’s moral? we…
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The Netherlands
Bees abandon the hive, the hivechildren starve. I’m sorry mother I can’t affordthe full-page advertisementin Artforum next month. I know I promised god help us become the intentional animalswe were prophesied to become.
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Mary Ruefle
think like that no like that sniff around a burrow don’t hunt birds think like this no like this raccoons yes groundhogs yes opossum definitely yes think for yourself no not like that not the robin though nor the house sparrow here give me the controller let me have a go at it nor the…
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“Stray Beast” by Sarah Jean Grimm
I cannot recommend highly enough Sarah Jean Grimm‘s “Soft Focus” from Metatron out of Montreal. The poem above grabbed me by the throat. I still have the finger marks from last night’s reading. Buy the book (might I suggest the entire Spring 2017 catalog?) and support great, living poets.
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Poetess
if one would iridesce greed one two three patterns emerge one skin of ochre two blood like blood three one can do nothing to embrace one’s poetess hang a snare one two three from the nose of a fox one two three what awaits one there one spiked leather collar two three a black vinyl dress one’s beard…
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The Roar of the Slain Protect
Wikipedia Poem, No. 413 For Bill the roar of the slain protect the caretaker’s hut that red clay pot portends tracks for the hunt everything in the red clay pot belongs to the animals though it is also fed on flour that as a practice belongs to those among us who do not touch bone…
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Logic Study
Wikipedia Poem, No. 409 a trap set with electric tongues mouse in- advertently cleft itemized by tongues transport terms arranged into two recursively out bloody breast bones you have something observer some sheet of margins imagine it the sense intelligence simmering both your final form and the sound beneath some shared irreverence ends in…
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all the notes from tonight
The thing in the sky All of a sudden is a cartoon bird Then it’s an actual hungry shark But it’s a puddle of draino now I’m sad I said sad to see polygons Again the lizard ten years old Then chemo Is a seahorse Then it’s a chicken It’s not a chicken per…
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