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“The Great Enigma” by Stamatis Polenakis (trans. Richard Pierce)
Goodbye forever to this brief age of freedom. Farewell unforgettable days and glorious nights and leaves swept away by the wind. We were young, we hoped for nothing and we waited for tomorrow with the blind obstinacy of the castaway who throws stones in the water. Source: Polenakis, Stamatis. “The Great Enigma.” Austerity Measures: The…
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Agamemnon and Clytemnestra(‘ ‘)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 950 blessed her factthat no one believed her and darkness fell this little temple snake little lick her agamemnon fell in love with the prophecy clytemnestra weighed herself and blessed her fact with a gift foreseeing the gates of troy during the prophecy clytemnestra denied the desert island foreseeing birds gift of…
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Empedocles and Exaenetus (Wikipoem for My Father)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 824 yr head if only he cared down their hooves spectacular the riders’ blood spilled as much for me but i was a wrestler and was a wrestler and was a farce another wrapped around their hooves spectacular the riderstand was a wrestler and was a farce vested spectacular the great heft…
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List of Ancient Greek Tribes (Vincenzo Peruggia)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 728 achaebi aean curethinyans aebi yans aoi aeges aoi aegiaebi epes aegyes aemones aoi curethinyans aoi eordeans aoi epes aoi minyans aoi phikrans aoi yans aones bottian cadmeans cretes epeioi cretes krans curetapithikes tes dryopeioi dryopelchaeans eordeans epeioi kranaoi kranes kylianaones kylians kyliantes kylikes kylikrans kylistinoans lasgians lasgiantes mikes mikranes minesaeans minyan…
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Come: Debug
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Polyphemus in Napa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 655 all that mighty oneself one sees stretch online glassed by the trees its easy eye and wine glasses lost in branches by the pain that’s remembered her sea bottom home for suede flash stupid save oneself from love you see selfless be come classless seawine in a park ing lot terrible…
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Strange Candy
Wikipedia Poem, No. 613 xerxes burrows into his thing-pink shirt for safety i never said he plays with geometry not consciously however i pity him welcome him to his soul where hallucinations manifest themselves into the guy or gal the bloodpool dreams of the battle of thermopylae sit down hero he wants a backyard with…
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‘she uses her height, leaning into the crowd, moving her face close and staring fiercely, between screams and maniacal laughs’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 609 windspill sail between make it surreal easy name a standup comic that could be anyone so we’ll make it easier name a standup comic called salvador didion née carlin ok that could be anyone so we’ll make it sleazier name a standup comic remover a 40-year spill spot a 50-year turn…
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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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‘Delirium for the Four Legs of a Love’ by Dimitris Athinakis (trans. Karen Emmerich)
I see your yesses coming from afar and my own, like candles, brandish and burn awaiting the centuries A strong wind carries off my hat my glasses my tattoo my arm carries off my leg and an eye [I’m left there smiling before jets gushing the joy of nothingness] joy — it too alone Stay,…
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