reading
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“Hi, Joanna”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BB8-VBBuy4e/ Hi, Joanna. How have you been? I’m well. You look well — I’m Happy to hear you use that word. Good. Good. Well, anyway, I’m Concerned about your voice. No, specifically the way you recite. It’s … troubling. You appear snakelike And arrested, harmless. That’s not the way. It’s not. I wouldn’t say…
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from Ben Lerner’s “Leaving the Atocha Station”
“Reading poetry, if reading is even the word, was something else entirely. Poetry actively repelled my attention, it was opaque and thingly and refused to absorb me; its articles and conjunctions and prepositions failed to dissolve into a feeling and a speed; you could fall into the spaces between words as you tried to link…
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Occipital Sacrifice
Give up the platitude For page 1 I know you have it in you; O me! O life! The old poets became poems Publishing houses, iconic paper Products, big muscular Names under which the poor Insert quarters, the confederate Rich remove rings Of Saturnalia, too On the nose.
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Prometheus Pile, No. 1
Incendiary, hunch You are wrong to think These words do not belong Together * * * Indulgent, hearth Nothing extraordinary But their use Used up; the cheap light of a bar-top match * * * Behold, Prometheus Pile
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