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The Collected Poems of Capita Mortua

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 761

lihe1

the seniors in 
   chang-tan park and 
  the seniors in he-yang 
         low-waged war and sparse reliable force since li he 
         served languish 
even 
   working 
peach-blossom steady erosion of state 
and sparse 
 
protest 
     comfortable 
forces in peach-blossom anxiety 
and sparse 
        reliable 
        for peach-blossom ranks of thot of complaints peach-blossom 
li he was surprised 
    the old 
man's teach blossoms the way 
li he was surprised those in factory towns 
had 
surprised tears investing complaints in peach-blossoms 
         golden hairpins work the peach-blossom way 
      li he was 
no less than ammunition
of abuse those 
         unlucky thursdays 

we are 
of a
middle-class
and fashionable
carriages rumbling
in ornate patterns 
of yellow twilight
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Source: Cohen, Patricia, and Robert Gebeloff. “Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class.” The New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018. Web.

After the CDC

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 686

after-the-cdc
“if he encounters resistance he points to his breast, where the symbol of the sun glitters” Kafka

 

vulnerable

r fetus idence-based fetus eble entans
gendment ditlementle entient div divider fet
nerabletus evint

entitlement

dividend-bitlemenement dgender idence-dsity
trment di sciencdiversinerableble entbased s div
ersity tra evideny transfetus eus eviditlemenr fetusce-base

diversity

ulnerabsed scientitlenerablebasedsity tr
diversd scienbased sder fety trans fetus
dement dulnerabnder fetlementransgenent

transgender

divable ence-basement diersity y trans
diversied sciersity tcience-der fetnt diveitle
meniversitce-basesednsgendece-baseransgeny

fetus

transnder science-gender gender
transgtransgeentitleement dlnerablent divvulnera
diversitransgeidence-entitlee-basedder fet diversi

evidence-based

ence-bansgendensgendeevidencs
evidee-basedbased sent div gendernt div
eder fett davinder feasedsity trus evidender f fetus

science-based

ence-baulnerabence-bae-basedty
tranansgend fetus nt divelnerablder fetetus
event diversity freedus ender d scienlnerabl

Denis Johnson (1949-2017)

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 491

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“My office smells like a theory, but here one weeps / to see the goodness of the world laid bare / and rising with the government on its lips, / the alphabet congealing in the air / around our heads.” Denis Johnson

 

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