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Robert Lax vs. Sandra Simonds
I would betbut I have nomoney withwhich to place a bet. I bet you began with that cleverlittle line tossedout like a thousand caltropsat the end of the poem. Whether I win or loseI lose—I start like thiswith my tongue splitthe tastebuds lost youngprecept armed withpoll tax and pollaxe. One switch turns off the internetanother…
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“Orpheus in Athens” by Jack Spicer
The boy had never seen an honest man. He looked among us every night he said. He eyed each stranger like Diogenes And took him with his lantern into bed. He’d probe the stranger’s body with that light Search every corner of his flesh and bone But truth was never there. He’d spend the night…
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