Good Parenting

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“Now—tell me, my love, if you recall / the dove light after dawn at the island and all—” Berryman

 

Lack of night now
Vandalism: What’s funnier
Squash or a substantial orange yam?
In a manger? Spaghetti
Wake up with a headache
Not the night before, but

With death: What a dire truck
Skulls skulls skulls
Every man, doves,
In a mugshot
Looks like my father
For someone so obsessed

Shacked, dated, bored
I understand
The cup on mother’s head
Why you’d come, hawks,
Taking my jazz
They don’t aggress

Condottieri, becoming, of course
The subtext of acetylene
He should have come out and talked

Wikipedia Poem, No. 109


Little soul little stray
little drifter
now where will you stay
all pale and all alone
after the way
you used to make fun of things


Hadrian with sensual succession to his reign
Hadrian ailing to his tastes

He used his succession to be more with his tastes
He oozed towards Hadrian's Wall which marked

Adopted at Baiae Antinous to his wife Pompeia
Palaestina Trajan's Wall which marked cultural cousin 

of birthplace his tastes he is accession 
to adopted Lucius Aurelius Aelius Ales

Sura were well-disposed towards Hadrian's conquests 
A Hispano-Roman emperors he rebuilt the Emperor 

from 117 to make Athens the Emperor from 117 
to keep the Empire Antinous to underline his tastes 

He spent admirer of Venus Aeli Lucius Aelius Aurelius Aelius
Aelius Aelius Aelius Aelius Sura were well-disposed cultural cousin

of ancient admirer officially according his wife Pompeia
Plotina Trajan's Wall which marked the Pantheon

afterward Hadrian dined and his regardent admirer officially 
accessors Hadrian with centuries-old roots in the Pantheon
   
afterward Hadrian ailing Hadrian was Roman emperor 
Trajan was a humanist and even dined and ordered his

own even dined an heir but accepted Lucius Aelius Sura were 
well-disposed the Emperor immediately before his tastes 

He reports often considered military Hadrian was a humanist 
and Armenia and Roman emperor immediately before rigorous 

to his tastes He is according and ordered them during Dacia
He usually wore his birthplace his cultural cousin of Venus

Aelius Sura were well-disposed the Pantheon afterwards Hadrian 
was a humanist and even dined on heir but them during them

During and even died suddenly two years latter died as a humanist 
and Armenia and Roman emperors He used to 138 Hadrian emperor 

from 117 to the Pantheon and constructed Lucius Aelius Aelius Aelius
Aelius Sura were well-disposed his times; He rebuilt that

Hadrian, “Little Soul,” translated by W.S. Merwin from Poetry (April 2006). 
Copyright © 2006 by W.S. Merwin. (via Poetry Foundation)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 94

“And it’s close to a all out war
With kids being murdered just for being black and tall outdoors
They respond to demonstrations wearing kevlar briefs
When the main problem is nobody respects our grief”
Open Mike Eagle, “Dark Comedy Late Show”

the extremists
      
the infidels   the 
militants shooting extremists
often under soft men
many beheaded
streets caliphate 
   speaking 
   soft Russian 
   them
the vast year   the infused 
Minbaj with 
stony-faced looks   the group who fled east   want to remain 
targets to battle brought 
   events 
who speaking 
   with 
his brother sitting guards slept
   where 
take position   they try 
to be remembered   sever   the Russians 
she/he anonymity to replace
   residents

fighters wept otherly   when blacked 
rename that 
night   humanitarian fatigues 
marching their sons 

Ahmed   Yazidi 
Syrian   Dohuk
Farouq   Minbaj
churn extremists 
over-ran boyhood 
   who 
   fled 

Beaten us 
   its 
contacted away
tell the living children of the group's 
   atrocities

   young 
Yazidi boys were with extreme
heads grouped out to rule captors 
   captors: beheads 
recruit apostate minority

training enduran
the military 
fatigues marching to recoil
   bounces 
his brother’s ancient 
   fate
 
the group's acolytes distributing under IS trainwashing 
the case for children
to fight 
even they use apostolic and historic everywhere
boys in 
   fields 

students proclaim to 
   have been 
   plunged 
between vanished and fear 
of the guise of who 
look stony-faced   they try 
   torture
given under barbed-following

Wikipedia Poem, No. 68

“A man must make poems
of such things, and hope
to conjure the myth
of laughter and clapping hands;”

Kwame Dawes

vous
quelle
latitude elle latitude
       elle latitude elle
latitude elle latitude
         elle.   -
J'ignore sous volontiers, déesse et immortelle latitude elle latitude elle
latitude
elle latitude elle
latitude elle latitude
        elle
         latitude elle latitude elle latitude elle.
        - Tes amis  ?   - La beauté  ?   - Tes amis  ? - Je n'ai
       ni
père,
ta mère,
ta mère,
ta soeur,
         ni
    mère, ni père,
ta mère, ta
mère, ta mère, ta
          mère, ta
      mère,
      ta mère, ta mère,
       ta mère, ta
mère, ni père, ta mère, ta mère, ta mère, ta
mère,
ta mère,
ta mère, ni père,
ta mère,
ta mère, ta mère, ta soeur, ni père, ta
       mère, ta
       mère, ta mère


"Ils sont disposés proprement,
ces masques rigides"


j'avais aimé, 
  j'ai 
longtemps chers, portraits 
et foudroyante, 
   la 
        moindre de la moindre de tant de 
   nos oeuvres 
éphémères 
éphémères 
sublimes 
       et l'art 
est 
         sentiment était ma douloureuse conquête. J'avais aimé, j'ai longtemps 
         cherché l'art 
est 
   idée leurraits et foudroyante, la 
         plus magnifique, l'art absolu ! O délire ! ô folie ! ô folie ! ô folie ! ô folie ! ô 
        folie ! ô 
        folie ! ô 
       folie ! ô 
         folie ! ô folie ! ô folie ! ô folie ! 

       éphémères éphémères éphémères immortelles.

Toute point 
le 
rayonnement était ma 
     douloureuse 
conquête. J'avais aimé, 
      j'avais aimé, j'ai longtemps chers, portraits 
et tours, 
portraits et foudroyante, la 
  moindre 
de l'art absolu!
[Sources: Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris (1869), (French edition); 
Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la Nuit (1836), (French edition);
Kwame Dawes, "Bruised Totem", from Duppy Conquerer (2013)]

Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog

The Fourth Night of the Fifth Year

Stop reading: Things have gotten tense 
Between the Farmer and the Bodybuilder
The Farmer locked in the barn. Jed wakes
The largest rooster, which, in turn, interrupts
His old, bitch mother’s wild dream. Night
After night drunk as if pulled through a kaleidoscope
Basal carcinoma breeches its surface 
A mighty flip for the almighty then back — BACK
Through the airlock. It’s silent here amongst no chicks
Which switch as though ejaculated. Standing nude, monolithic
In the sun, the Farmer forced to clean up after the Bodybuilder.
Stars drip from the padlock lovely beneath the latch.
I can see you, Jed.

The Sixth Night of the Fourth Year

You can continue to stop reading: Things ain’t well
Between the Farmer and the Bodybuilder 
The Farmer has kept in the big, red barn
And Milk, who, it is written, 
Whether or not anyone reads, has continued to 
Dream prodigiously like a pig eating its own shit 
The Caesar wears like a pendant. Butchering’s 50 percent 
What isn’t written, she always said, and that is to say: 
Milk’s lunches have gotten slim.
Less meat landing at the padlock, less meat on the Farmer.
One man opening his hand toward another
Will take something for memory. Jed takes
But won’t remember.

The Eighth Night of the Third Year

You mustn’t read on: Mother is dead
Under a blanket dancing all of her little ones
Their loudest cottons torn along floorboards
Dancing through the eye of a needle.
No mountain passes but saying—oh—saying there are 
Mountain passes cut and in between
Remind me: The Farmer and the Bodybuilder
The Farmer locked in the big, red, burning barn
So many years ago, still, are cocooned back-to-back and hung
From the bark of the Alamo tree. I, the poet, sing to them every night
After night drunk as if pulled through a kaleidoscope
Hoping you will love.

Five Days Outside of London

Five Days Outside of London
I 	don't know why apples fall where 
	don't care for candy or cats 
&, no, I didn’t catch that show, no

Compelled to connect

I put my hand up against the cold windowpane
	a bullet of shock runs towards my heart 
	bulls graze in the street
so many zoos lost in time
we're more afraid of them 
	than they of us

I know what I need to know

I'm deeply concerned
	(this voice traveling my left arm 
	(like a creaking door 
their cache of foodstuffs is beyond us
we will be forced to relearn 
the dispassionate ways of the earth

I pass on survival, tools, symbolic refrain

Some of my children are punished for weakness 
and forgotten as a melody once-whistled in a car

I no longer write about the bashful quality of the stars 
but instead depend on them, follow and lead by their light

What, we imagine together, is a car? cautiously approaching sleep
On the green highway that meanders west between London and Rome.