New York City
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Mental Health Awareness Day Poem
But what does it mean the guitar drones too loud what says the producer if a producer was involved at all in these cai guo-qiang epiphanies of cookie dough pit bulls leash themselves to the intersection of two corners arrive with incredulity at the real problem which looks so much as the fake problem is…
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Stuck Tight Old Boy Stuck Tight
‘Safety Lock’ by Louis Aragon My wordHand caught in the doorStuck tight old boy stuck tightIn other wordsOrThe password pleaseMany thanksNow I hold the keyThe bolt begins to twist like a tongueTherefore Trans. Michael Benedikt Source: Aragon, Louis. “Safety Lock.” The Poetry of Surrealism, edited by Michael Benedikt. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1974, p. 151.…
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Men in Hats Rise from the Ground
‘Five O’Clock’ by James Schuyler Men disport themselves.They help each other:“Reach in my chest and massage my heart.I am not dead.” If clouds are God’s table linen,what is rain?He gave men towels to dry themselves.He blessed their soap. The city grew like the desert, by erosionMen walk in it.God is not so much dead as…
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New York, 02062017
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