relationships
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Great Emotional Distress
from drinkher wifelaughs she breatheshard andthroat cracks in her sleepinglayers ofgreen magma rise upthrough her body herold girlfriend math the poemcan take a punchthrough green ice scream forattentionlike a snake withwings squeezing her neck why laugh now? thetrauma behind her backdid she rememberto brush her teeth with a knifeshe’s a small manand she assumes she…
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New Reform Temple with Snow (How to Fully Inhabit Your Characters)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 986 you love/live; you don’t know the woman trying to hold the woman what is this poem about? nancy me — about? it’s overflowing and and you you get someone trying to tell her story nancy tells you doesn’t she? you don’t know don’t listen don’t know this woman is what this…
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Debriefing (Purple Chrysanthemum in the Dark)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 980 purple chrysanthemums when he’s locked in currency his girlfriend he presumescan’t smell her rose his long black presumption in the dark it’s nobody’s job to shine boots antoni sneaks offstateless watchesarrange shirts the hour he’s locked each day precedesverde lungs value in chrysanthemums his girlfriend dollar watchesblossoming arrangements of purple he…
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Love Poem
Wikipedia Poem, No. 903 the heavy thumb of the apocalypse taut line completely ignored left hand of panic openness space pause i had a girlfriend who stole me books was the earliest gospeljust to escape his terrible flailings the intense confusion mob of dogma jesus dolefully debates a cry for his moral and ethical message—one…
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gringo interventions & coups d’etats
Wikipedia Poem, No. 895 the picturewomen that brought the fair says the flare of mysterious sun nests in blood. the same age i waited for you in the girls we could break into goodness. like as in loved. asleep. you die. no sun in roots and whiskey and seems fair though therfucking the place up,…
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Poem after Personals in The New York Review of Books (Soumettre à une Interrogation)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 798 man seeks unattached heart woman seeks mature gent mannattached heart woman seek/soumettre intellectual secure companionship vibrant as a travel agent que vigoureux cherche femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant la vie nous délaisser for relationship for travel for heat vibrant que vigoureux chercheur femme sachant que vigoureux cherche femme sachant…
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How to Raise a Premodern Family
Wikipedia Poem, No. 743 disappear into a cloud of those big slick cartoon bombs pair me with the twin cities or cuyamungué flint or kalamazoo or something coal blackboard anime avocado cowboy self-doubt gender cowboy hunger sound of hunger to the best of your recollection how fast was the joke? a revolution? an iphone?…
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Bernadette
I sit in bed beside you, shearing, Heating pad set to medium; You say I couldn’t handle more. You’re looking for work. I’m reading about poets in Monochrome. Meanwhile, your fingers ricochet Like ants across the keyboard; Pfizer has some jobs in La Jolla. I don’t want to reach over and fuck you Nor…
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‘Do you need some more right ears, David?’
do you need some more right ears david? insert this monkey’s jaw in the space between the ridge of the ear and the skull? (what is the name of this extra-hard portion of skull? place yourself behind the eyes of the croaking at the bottom of the well y’all read that dystopian joint, right? if…
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Monadnock
Wikipedia Poem, No, 691 in some countries hair pilcrow blossom falls she is you remember that a good husband avoids a cross time bothers neither alluvial husband nor empire husband nor backwoods husband nor line them up on my own thread across time i return to my collapsing honey-clings to my life my wife that…
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