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A Historic Tax Heist
Wikipedia Poem, No. 673 polluting work as a true-jurist staining dark-blue originally in reference to a snowy stickler foreign or true white with a fine pruina who researches without any commonwealth someone who researches pure simple strigose hair opposed to applying by an academic odor and taste no distinctive legal-skin of america and pure simple…
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Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (Self-Portrait)
look first that’s the point how does algae grow so deeply photosynthetic am i asking you or am i muttering moon mad either way i see myself of course in that master’s eyes surrounded by all the thin cracks in the pain the crow’s feet tighten around the rosette wire at the bottom of the…
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Harvey Weinstein’s YouTube Channel
Wikipedia Poem, No. 636 peddling peddling beautiful young wares they share the title poetry recommendations the first seven the first seven their focus permanently soft and their too chewed up seconds of ice centered in their focus premaritally soft and my all the first seven seconds of a half dozen videos featuring beautiful young women…
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Strange Candy
Wikipedia Poem, No. 613 xerxes burrows into his thing-pink shirt for safety i never said he plays with geometry not consciously however i pity him welcome him to his soul where hallucinations manifest themselves into the guy or gal the bloodpool dreams of the battle of thermopylae sit down hero he wants a backyard with…
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Jill Soloway
mechanical arm lowers raises capable wavy red hair pink skin dry brown desert crunch so what? sliced blue cow the transforming grill blanket warm skin so what if you’re wrong? now you want to make art with cacti shriveling in the sunset? that’s the worst thing you could have said what do you do with a want who’s…
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Personal Poem
i meant to say something about light i raze light not your light and not artificial light what of the artificial then? an ungainly freudian monolith gargantuan simple fleshy constructed of shit found in the tv street about light input output welding welded expository writing damaged categoricals empathy but there’s always a corollary-but with men…
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Pink Teeth
Wikipedia Poem, No. 464 rain falling out of the house sparrow who swallows river rushes an aluminum easy noon rain falling out of the sky planes and birds horizontal the sky horizontal too the house grey courtyard blanketed with teeth love is the sky love into the mirrored planes and birds then not the prison wall crawling…
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“To Psychoanalysis” by Kenneth Koch
I took the Lexington Avenue subway To arrive at you in your glory days Of the Nineteen Fifties when we believed That you could solve any problem And I had nothing but disdain For “self-analysis” “group analysis” “Jungian analysis” “Adlerian analysis” the Karen Horney kind All—other than you, pure Freudian type— Despicable and never to…
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“Stray Beast” by Sarah Jean Grimm
I cannot recommend highly enough Sarah Jean Grimm‘s “Soft Focus” from Metatron out of Montreal. The poem above grabbed me by the throat. I still have the finger marks from last night’s reading. Buy the book (might I suggest the entire Spring 2017 catalog?) and support great, living poets.
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Forbidden Planet with Drooping Almonds
Wikipedia Poem, No. 448 pupils big as street lamps warming up an attack of white iron radiator hiss father by the ramparts that bed remember beside a white work truck his bed inside the white iron radiator his left earlobe — tall field that rampart save mending in forbidden planet with almonds drooping an albino…
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