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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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Agency Representation
the tide dropped outwhile still enrolledputa in the sunscared mooncertainly not the heroesdarkly begging at the shore’s feettaking advantagethe only thingat which they’ve excelledno other way to get it donetheir shoulder / your shouldertheir back / your backthe chorus unable to prove anything anymore distracted by distractioncomparingwork to worryreaction to actionsyrup to syntaxthe anti-war movement…
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Snorting a Lexapro With You
Fucking at the Zoo rich fucks poor schmucks grey donkeys pink goatsloser communist cattle roaming cocks black pig gnaws vestigial arm of long-deadstump pink pig dreams of shit in dry sun all pant in red heat zoo as palaceof great social inequity lonesome horse shreds grass beside canada goose both childrenenamored in their wielding large…
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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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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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