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From “On Motorcycles” by Frederick Seidel
… “On the lyrical state highways of Vermont I blatted and roared, up and down through the gears, at eighty, at a hundred and something, at much more than a hundred and something miles an hour. The motorcycle had a relatively long wheelbase and felt absolutely solid in a straight line, despite the shaft-drive, and…
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Denis Johnson (1949-2017)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 491 his lips laid & rising with the warm goodness of theory there they wept rivers over their alphabet that would not congeal despite how grave their wound who inter their gravity
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Kino Sadamaru (1760-1841)
Though this body, I know, is a thing of no substance, must it fade, alas, so swiftly, like a soundless fart? Source: Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson. From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Print.
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Proof You Can Write A Poem You’ve Never Read (Basquiat)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 479 painting of a face in a skull brought $1105 million-plus club in the work it was taken the sixth most had been guaranteed to buyer the shape of a face in the room on basquiat least for sotheby’s to make same least four bidders on basquiat that’s not exactly a thrillionaire…
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Handheld Halo (Drinks with Mitch)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 475 drunking out pretty along the hand scratching out pretty along the baptist? no is it krishna then? is it mirabai or the baptist? no it is mirabai or the untouchable one the invisible breezer perfect again not nearly impossible is it it is mirabai her not-slender wrist scratching out pretty along…
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Salty
Wikipedia Poem, No. 458 killed their bodies for five earrings me in the streets expensive me the streets setting fire taking me into the streets setting fire to warn worn like worms to worn tax collectors houses some attacked to protest and soak their chalky white skin in heaps of rebels emblazoned with carved jade…
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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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Wikipedia Poem, No. 372
present never givesway but rather cannot be as to your own restraint it is mortal that if it like a fig or crystal it restrains as mortal goblet if it not be distressed then in its seasons present and remember what harm is there mortal that if it was behind painted generals when painted to…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 371
for Bernie lying in the end of you are all mad and we cattle—among the cattle—among the can walking along you are all made and we cattle—among the poplars on a lane along you say don’t forget the bargains are all made and we cattle among the rich with life—and you meet me and you…
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