taunted
reclusive one
brash improbable courtship
red-carpeted enmity
step in a gamble
of counterstruck
each other a momentous step
personal diplomacy can shoulder
the world’s largest nuclear program
Source: Landler, Mark. “Trump and Kim Shake Hands in First Face-to-Face Meeting.” The New York Times. 12 June 2018, 11:30 p.m. Web.
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“I’ve seen thy spirit bending / In fond idolatry.” Emily Dickinson
you don't like
your opinions
but
because
i'm
a flatterer
or
something
i loved
it is
nothing to
alter its dimensions
i'm
a flatterer
vested in hydrangeas
or
something black
and
ravaged
wielding
love
is that you
afraid of love simply because
i'm a flatterer
and have flattered before
or is something black
and ravage
wielding the vest of hydrangeas
or something vested in hydrangeas
or
something to
alter
its
dimensions
because you're flattered
by your opinions
or something
more
like
you
it's
just like
this
show
me the altar in you
unwilling to be loved
please
show me
and i will
desecrate it
“Ti dico addio quando ti cerco Amore, / come il mio tempo e questo grigio vuole. / Oh, in te era l’ombra della terra e il sole, / e il cuore d’un fanciullo senza cuore.” Umberto Saba
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behind the efforts about he when horror erupts
“It was the eery drone / of the police state / that began to unnerve him” from “Ode to d.a. levy” by Ed Sanders
underlying belief underlying
power obligation power
replace governments replace
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leader free world
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interests mutable interests
values democracy values
rule of law practical
considerations economic considerations
political competition political
elasticity interests elasticity
countries considered countries
potential targets potential
tender ministrations tender
“If we bear in mind the fact that tendentious jokes are so highly suitable for attacks on the great, the dignified and the mighty, who are protected by internal inhibitions and external circumstances from direct disparagement, we shall be obliged to take a special view of certain groups of jokes which seem to be concerned with inferior and powerless people.” Sigmund Freud
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Sources: Galchen, Rivka, and Benjamin Moser. “Are There Any Unforgivable Sins in Literature?” Sunday Book Review The New York Times, 12 Jan. 2016. Web. 14 Jan. 2016. Freud, Sigmund. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Ed. James Strachey. Mass Market Paperback ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1905. Print.
Adapted from a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
boldness security
togetherness
she discovers
anger
envy no love no standing
don’t dangle
anything from the ash
no
flash photography
do you, dear undertow
pity cruelty
pride modesty
shame
please
be quiet
no
flash photography
does she
dangle anything
never forget
touch her
own safety shame
please be quiet
you can’t
park here
safety shame
please, feels free to
empty
her
hands before signing on the
push
light
stop crying
don’t dangle anything to empty the ledge
take a step back
fear under surprise expect disrespect distand?
don’t
dangle anything to touch her own safety
