observation
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Hackensack
After Ron Padgett’s Amsterdam The sky has been paved over by no boats in the Hackensack. In the gutters of River Roadwatery asphalt crumblesbecause it is New Jersey and very unwell. Even the street light thinks filth, withthe sadness of her body her electric mind every minuteand Ken Zisa insidethe house watching his Yankeesinning after…
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‘For a Moment’ by Ron Padgett
It’s funny howif you just let goof things they will come toyou. That is to saysometimes. So what good is such ageneralization?Ah, it makes you feel good to saysuch things fromtime to time, as if you actuallyand really and trulyknew something! Source: Padgett, Ron. Collected Poems. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 2013, p. 415.
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Our Hero Discovers Pure Empathy In the Dustless Prop Corners of Episodic Soft-Input Humor
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Wikpedia Poem, No. 55
“B is for the Brute / in white soft, scuffless sneakers / smoke” stretching at Autosayyid B is for Brute that oil-stained to Ghostbro are and slit here the general tattoo waving loaded to a share and of my hat gnawing me to the stared asphalt four of my hats gnawing overing this nothink a…
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unlicked filth on bentbranch fingers & a chemical thin residue lean waits to be pleased across his mottled brow & thensudden cheekbone spikes no gleam. despite his mottling hair a swamp alive & long ago wet precious & fragile as a cradle unprintable man loved at impossible distance and when & when wise brown eyes…
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