modern poetry
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Bolaño
poets exaggerateeverything you needed to know about me back then could be summed up thusly coming upon a page underlined by amazon’s popular highlights feature in whatever kindle book I was reading knocked me off course everytime knowing that 22 people had previously highlighted this passage in Bolaño about young poets andold whores ripped the…
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On One Leg (House Beautiful)
prokofiev cobham & darnielle circle one’scrown blue llama equilateral wingedwhat have we hereseen? a photo in a photo in a magazinemetaphor boils the potafter a jot spills its ink hungover an fim-92 stinger whichlike i said before is no metaphorat all al gore despondent speaking to late modal fordsdon’t forget mass production the cruelest bearda…
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“Orpheus in Athens” by Jack Spicer
The boy had never seen an honest man. He looked among us every night he said. He eyed each stranger like Diogenes And took him with his lantern into bed. He’d probe the stranger’s body with that light Search every corner of his flesh and bone But truth was never there. He’d spend the night…
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