criticism
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Millennials Lose Their Teeth in Threes
their miraculous pink dresses on the left hoverover the pancakes of light leaking onto the film or maybe even it’s an appi’ve watched prestige television the kids are beautiful except the earsof the twenty-something his life decisions rattling in the high grassbaked in milk so much poison on the right she’s tall and thin and…
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Review of Trilobyte
“Trilobyte is a prime example of ‘write the poem you want to read.’ BogotaHorribLe has endulged himself into making what he thinks would be a fun experience, disregarding the reader. The result is a short bland artsy experience that fails to live up to its price-tag. A clunky conceit, and forced boring ‘anthropological’ images (one…
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Collage Burning Landscape
what’s even worth painting anymore? all the nerd girls in big striped sweaters warming bleach moms gym guys in slate sleeveless tees and they make shoes out of knit polyester now tight pants loosepants clouds bodies minds bricks piled up high hair gel on a young couple four hundred feet away i’m worried about their…
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Cormorant to Cormorant, Fixed in Flight (The Deserter)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 908 for Jerry Saltz cordite (n) a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent cellulose nitrate, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly. agreementi have a school of athens in my headi have a banana and slip?it’s the wu-tang clan over have a banana and…
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Anchor Point on Marx’s Birthday
Wikipedia Poem, No. 775 indoctrinations said the question needing communism to point an anchor profane said the blames with lyrics beckoning snow bitter acid said an old-school still hold tight the ideals of marxist values question said the tanks to reassert talk show values blame the armory less for the birth of the soul
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Performing Neurodegenerative Critique (I Escape the Atmosphere)
I escape the atmosphere I escape the sinister I escaped the atmosphere I escape the atmosphere I recalled the atmosphere I read the atmosphere I received the atmosphere I receive the atmosphere I escape the atmosphere I escape the atmosphere I die the anytime I desire the atmosphere I escape the atmosphere I recalled the…
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Hizb al-Kanaba (Neoliberaling on el-Sisi’s Slacks)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 679 can subscribe to the cause of death before their relative’s body could be caricature in modern egypt it is closer to reportage i have personally seen the medical files of polished brass shaimaa el-sabbagh hizb al-kanaba “in many other contexts this would be caricature in modern egypt it is closer…
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“to bed a cricket / stroke my goatee”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 666 to bed a cricket stroke my goatee i dance from side to side now furrow my brown house sparrow flutters in a fruit bowl with whom am i arguing crickets then go to bed obsess over critics crickets and poets both lord over their own right hands squeeze the…
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A Conversation About Frederick Seidel Between an Elementary School Teacher and a Hungry Upper West Side Pigeon
Wikipedia Poem, No. 665 either upon this trace of tree an endless sea and home how do ye murmur out in barren mazes or cyclades or the islands of king solomon one-off i want to become and that i want to become and then i want to become a legendary cameo pinned on i want who…
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RNG (Robbins v. Goldsmith)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 663 in that particular place at that precise instant virtue in late fall sniff modernism rhyme disappear from poetry sometime in late fall sniff jealousy the primary output of modernism rhyme disappears from poetry sometime next week early winter is that sunrise or sunset culture moving thereby the young reproduce like culture…
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