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David Remnick
Referential in a way John Ashbery could never be — I’ve yet to read John Ashbery. I’m at the ironbark dreaming, Except I’m not; I’m ironstone. The world will not let me Say what I mean; or I Come across Weak, watered down And cheap. I’m afraid to pay For what I deserve; “Alright. Honey,…
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Teaching Literature in a Discredited Civilization
Wikipedia Poem, No. 496 houses on this dial paired with one who dials out and his block with many people on it one who moves verges on this pair one who dials out a broad bruised hand sitting on condescending they are many houses on a 5D model apartment dwellers wrong laugh condescending cry to…
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Motion in Ordered Control
Wikipedia Poem, No. 490 exer xer ekser to metiontrol ined acticulous meticulous meticulous control in order exer exer to mentionss unrefin order to meticulous maker to meticulous unrefin order to meticulous metiontrol in ses make baker to make baker to maker to maker exer to meticulous maker exer exer to make baker exer exer exer…
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Handheld Halo (Drinks with Mitch)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 475 drunking out pretty along the hand scratching out pretty along the baptist? no is it krishna then? is it mirabai or the baptist? no it is mirabai or the untouchable one the invisible breezer perfect again not nearly impossible is it it is mirabai her not-slender wrist scratching out pretty along…
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Mary Ruefle
think like that no like that sniff around a burrow don’t hunt birds think like this no like this raccoons yes groundhogs yes opossum definitely yes think for yourself no not like that not the robin though nor the house sparrow here give me the controller let me have a go at it nor the…
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‘Lightning Bugs’ by August Kleinzahler
A cruel word at eventide and night zips up like a spider’s retreat. Go back to your febrile needlework. We shall not be chasing lightning bugs in the tall grass tonight. Put the whiskey on the shelf and let us speak calmly of money. Source: Kleinzahler, August. Live from the Hong Kong Nile…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 399
impressionner من باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionarte باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionare je dois vous impresionarte dois vous impresionner من باید به شما تحت تاثیر قرار دادن debo impresionarte o impress you devo impresionare je dois vous impresionarte o impress you devo impresionarte o impresionner من باید…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 393
at the feels theater today model back in the slimsame way its man be but arson who built the shift in opera mysterious quilted beasts see arson need by children’t though earth craft they’re unfortunate buildings burned us for in a manipular troupe shift involves shore choice he regrets the coal by choice once productions…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 353
begins the news tossing a protected son of silver tightly packed aluminum dancing self-doubt of nations and distretched before you were you were you were so few are joking self-doubt of nations and hasn’t heard the water fraught with isness and someone’s buen estudiante with a high pain threshold or pierces its red velvet…
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“Urban life is dense and fast and requires flexible structures that can incorporate speed and information.”
When I’m in Texas or Iowa I’m aware of the railroads and superhighways, and here [in New Jersey] there’s the city and the George Washington Bridge filled with its perpetual stream, the planes coming overhead, the cars moving along, the tremendous energy of the place, and its concentration of people. Nothing is still here. It’s very…
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