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Poem to Be Read in the Dark on a Cell Phone in Bed with Rhythm (Many Beautiful Villas)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 781 turn to food better debtor talk of talk many beautiful villas talk of many beautiful villas on beautiful villas on the argument villas about authenticity one from palermo one from agrigento the ingredients of staying in palermo versus agrigento the talk of course will turn to many beautiful villas the talk of the…
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Pay Half Your Life, Rounded Up
Wikipedia Poem, No. 712 one part gas mask two parts treeshrew skull one half ounce intoxicated trounce one buxom bouncecastle some amount of tree half never retrieve the cumulus of nectar first you crawl then you pay
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“It only took me 10 seconds to decide to take the picture then”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 698 It only took me 10 seconds to decide to take the picture then image information and so high acutance results in sharp transition / transitions at an edge // and so high / acutance describes how quickly image information transitions at an edge and detail with clearly defined borders de borders…
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Hello I’m Calling to Apologize for Breaking All of the Plates
Wikipedia Poem, No. 644 of ice feed gray demon: have three baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots dipped in baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots dipped in baby carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots (carrots…
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“The Sausage Master of Minsk” by August Kleinzahler
I was sausage master of Minsk; young girls brought parsley to my shop and watched as I ground coriander, garlic and calves’ hearts. At harvest time they’d come with sheaves: hags in babushkas, girls plump as quail, wrapped in bright tunics, switching the flanks of oxen. Each to the other, beast and woman, goggle-eyed at…
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The Internet Appears in the Morning Like a Hand / Full of Cashews and Coconut Meat
Wikipedia Poem, No. 508 from your genderlesque moiré two water suns train invasive things the percieved field is most like my clause before stolen ice cream in order to think like singing deploy textbook masturbation thighs swing across the marketplace air like hangman powerful free diogenes sidling cloud crab then off she petals paper dress…
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Hezutsu Tōsaku (1726-1789)
Affluence—define it as: pickled greens, rice for supper, nice wine, one bottle, modest but never empty 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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Going to Minsk
Wikipedia Poem, No. 481 dough stuck to eat (or stop cannibalizing it never ends all the dumplings will never end all like a black rabbit head such improbable writing plastic trimming never ending all like a rebus poem the throat himself (or a stand-in for the paris review facebook page someone somewhere must care about…
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Impossible Numbers
Wikipedia Poem, No. 418 after Vijay Seshadri and numbers no matter how abstract laced together in a ceramic bowl farmost impossible an implication of angels argue about 3 green apples in an old lady’s outstretched hands the numb plain makes no sense lust in a cracked ceramic bowl clearly the old lady and the victim…
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