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John Ashbery, 1927-2017
“Fear of Death” by John Ashbery What is it now with me And is it as I have become? Is there no state free from the boundry lines Of before and after? The window is open today And the air pours in with piano notes In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John, I’ve…
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Head of the Serpent, Shepherd’s Dog and Sitting Gods, The King with Blood for Jewels
Wikipedia Poem, No. 587 no i see upside down i see no upside but no i see upside down again but no i see down on everything but i see everything is as it should be everything is as it should be i see everything as it was i won’t bear it i won’t bear…
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Heroes of the Meme War
Wikipedia Poem, No. 585 wrong-wing is his implicit support office in the slobbering security crunch the highest office in the limply said usually a politician relies long death squads engage in our land he’s the collage in our land bricolage-feeder who lies once he leader will not stand he’s the dead in our land the…
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“Seven Aphorisms” by Alda Merini
I am a furious little bee. ◊ To mistake shit for chocolate is the privilege of the overeducated. ◊ Every man is a friend to his own pathology. ◊ I never speak when I am not turned on. ◊ The gun I point at my head is called poetry. ◊ Every tibia loves its fibula.…
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“Da Aforismi e Magie” by Alda Merini
Sono una piccola ape furibonda. ◊ Confondere la merda con la cioccolata é un privilegio delle persone estremamente colte. ◊ Oguno é amino della sua patalogia. ◊ Non parlo mai se non sono accesa. ◊ La pistola che ho puntato alla tempia si chiama Poesia. ◊ Ogni tibia ama la sua fibula. ◊ Alda Merini…
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Under the Raft of the Medusa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 584 outside of yourself individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented policies that will make fredonia squeal again have been internally counternally removed or undermined in recent months individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented individuals who most embodied cover with dressings and bandages represented individuals…
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Our Hero Discovers Pure Empathy In the Dustless Prop Corners of Episodic Soft-Input Humor
Wikipedia Poem, No. 582 niece put aliens audience put humor maw the gaudier not soft-hence put claw the seep not somnolence put h audience claw the aliens cl-vulgar audience spymaster epithet do derringer not soft-soft-fidget-fingered they dosses lazily they-audience pains claw mistery cedes they dose soft-humor modesty they gar alienist alienable alliance put hut episodes…
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Daedalus (Black Remix)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 579 for language symbolic this mothers’ death was a life he bestows on her—her surrounded now— his mothers the composition for a life bestown on her—his mothers—only through language symbols like black water then anorexia or an anorexia of rage like black water to jung a presence in which exorcise a substitution…
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The Two Orchard Thieves
Wikipedia Poem, No. 577 these two orchard thieves a series and a brother the spirit seems somehow yet feminine oily laughs when campfire staircases rise up like milk our bodies sculpt a cheap iron colocynth breaks our ranks touch again doves watercourses a campfire family laughter incorporating me as simple as poetry is a series…
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Protest Chord for Taylor Swift
Wikipedia Poem, No. 574 first to oxford with crosscutting pilgrim-mages then to mount calvary to dialect’s grave then back to age of baroque nicknames to roman locks and nave to your beloved trapped in pun then back to pun itself where we find the beloved scrubs feet of dialect
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