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Writing Advice: “Eschew rationality, meaning and ‘good taste’.”
If you find yourself unable to write, don’t write. Play with your words. Here’s a great unplanted seed for a writing exercise: Go to your favorite website and find an article that contains a not negligible amount of text. Highlight a paragraph and the copy it to your clipboard. I’ll do this with you. I’m…
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Rupture, Trauma (pol-yde-cte-spe-rse-usm-edu-sax)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 488 time children chubby forearms furniture nips at salvation to victims respectful to victims respected performance work masters last intimate it must record tell must recruit acts of paradise given magnum distlllation chosen the record tell must record tell must record tell must record tell now nips at salvations of paradise given…
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Don’t Appear Howling
Wikipedia Poem, No. 487 compartments no compartments than what? then what that sound of intense emotion death blowing across vacant valley no-lines shot across compartments no compartments no lines between valleys no lines between compartments no compartmentalizing then what? the sound of intense emotion is the sound of of death crawling across the valley of…
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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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Poets Reading the News publishes ‘Agraphia’
A great poetry website, Poets Reading The News, has published another one of my poems, Agraphia, along with one my recent photos, Car 5 (above). I’m extraordinarily fond, and proud, of this poem. It’s about the way that war and violence affect one’s humanity. It begins with a quote from Gabriele de’ Mussi, a historian of…
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Disclaimer (Busdriver)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 450 membership if you need it this box and click this i’d like to contact us as page unable to contact us as page unable to your netflix membership if your membership if you please visit our help like this email address if you need help here take this box click this…
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Polymer
Wikipedia Poem, No. 447 considers well-produced risk how far is too too far is too far so far balanced well-produced eye real human skin simple ethical boundaries thrilling well-adjusted someone balanced tests my mind well-adjusted too far balance test my conservative mind well-produced polymers risk produced conservative polymers risk well-produced polymers risk eye read as human…
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Muriel Rukeyser
Wikipedia Poem, No. 431 remain consistent a commitment to an apt description of her feminist activities garnered her our twentieth-century coleridge our neruda organized protests against the whole of her remarkable femininity a woman a jew a jew a jew a jew a jew a single multitude the trial of american poetry an apt description…
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Sappho
Wikipedia Poem, No. 428 sly i the poet graciously meant to say output as in copula or contains particles and determines its simplest yet most meaningful verb twined around sappho’s esophagus the symptoms a poet’s symptoms manifest in the divorce of stratonice stratonice of syria queen of the seleucid empire from 300 bc until 294…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 400
a man properly sharpens always harvests a district this will clear the most important thing a man is sure to build a sub-district plans to do this most important thing a spear the difference between winning correctly and just winning a man first drops efficiency the tile of what sailing speciality send them in them…
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