Hackensack
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Modern Parenting Poem
Cardinal feeding utility flag drummers and drunks oversimplify flesh the meat the spirit the soul everything i’ve learned about writing taught by drum and drink control yourself you will be free of mother nature calm down the copper knife at the back of your throat offers itself as relentlessness of the order that ought to…
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Temper at the Prospect
How our lively natures were rapt away by post-modern science fiction “What temper at the prospect did not wakeTo happiness unthought of? The inertWere roused, and lively natures rapt away!” William Wordsworth February 2021 — Why doesn’t ugly start a revolution? The intellectual farmacie of traditional media, rife with fit, reasonably attractive folks earn profiles…
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Art Reality Freshly Preserved, Produced and Tinned in Milan, May 1961
hung in the shadowson the western wallemerald cone boasting coronaof dipped lunatic cotton failsserially with each attempt(once every three minutes)to intellect through shortdire sentences despite being broken intolabium labrum maxillae and mandiblethe discourse remains functionalpowered up and spread warm butter like the sunlike the museum’s most popular galleryquantitatively as the reader failsto consider commerce here…
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Thanksgiving Guilt
The days — likely the months — leading up to Thanksgiving 2020 have left a hazy tarnish on my ability to be present for my family and friends. It started, of course, with the economic uncertainty, political instability, and alienating nature of COVID-19. But it is bigger than that, more insidious, and ultimately more profound.…
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The Blue Cherry Blossoms on The Blue Tree
‘Cherry Blossoms at Evening’ by William Carlos Williams In the prebirth of the eveningthe blue cherry blossoms on the blue treefrom this yellow, ended room—press to the windowsinside shall be outthe clustered faces of the flowersstraining to look in Source: Williams, William C. “Cherry Blossoms at Evening.” The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume…
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Valzhyna Mort & Henri Cartier-Bresson, Postcoital
violent global apocalypsearen’t you worried brrthe mirror ball playing with the toddlerin the parking lotso meaningless: music in the air there is no belarusianversion of this poemshe turns the therapist to 11 we no longer think in colorthere’s only colddark and not dark the prism handles the restthe first third and fifth courseare the cheapest…
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Acusar al Presidente
yes 10:13 in hackensack and i am wonderingwhy on earth is my skin so skinny when all the prayers say i should be greasymy benedictions should be known widelyhow many people are even in this bolted down town anyway if i stop with all the bolas de acerocerveza and el gran poeta contemporáneo maybe i’ll…
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Hackensack Rally to Stop Police Brutality and Racist Violence #blacklivesmatter
All photos copyright Joe Gerace, 2020 (please email for usage permission) Hundreds gathered on a sweltering June afternoon in Hackensack, NJ, to call for an end to police brutality against people of color in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. Organizers provided a platform for members of the…
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Hackensack
After Ron Padgett’s Amsterdam The sky has been paved over by no boats in the Hackensack. In the gutters of River Roadwatery asphalt crumblesbecause it is New Jersey and very unwell. Even the street light thinks filth, withthe sadness of her body her electric mind every minuteand Ken Zisa insidethe house watching his Yankeesinning after…
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