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A Reddit discussion on the relevance of poetry, extracted and minimally styled after DFW.
X. Oh my god, everyone. <RANT> Poetry is meaningless, cars are meaningless, thoughts are meaningless, action is meaningless, airplanes are meaningless, babies are meaningless… UNLESS they do something. That has broad implications, but this is a fact. Cliche. Cliche. Cliche. Everyone’s always arguing about the death/rebirth of poetry. Poetry hasn’t mattered on a conventional scale…
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Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog
The Fourth Night of the Fifth Year Stop reading: Things have gotten tense Between the Farmer and the Bodybuilder The Farmer locked in the barn. Jed wakes The largest rooster, which, in turn, interrupts His old, bitch mother’s wild dream. Night After night drunk as if pulled through a kaleidoscope Basal carcinoma breeches its surface…
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wikipedia poem, no. 26
ONE distraught tunic. Does anyway: The HUGE society where…), must be written elsewhere…), must be written elsewhere m&w status/attributes, (so which, $ —> effect?) (a ward against that type of man.) (Perhaps the thing—we’ve resigned ourselves as the monastic social mover, major reeling about their physical striation, internal/etc. “Blue/white collar,” $ of clothing black tshirt,…
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wikipedia poem, no. 20
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…
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wikipedia poem, no. 8
above their offspring they are usually solitary male sun bears occur in standing sites consist mainly of fallen hollow logs some are usually solitary male sun bears occur in standing sites consist mainly of fallen hollow logs but some are usually solitary male sun bears occur in standing sites consist mainly of fallen logs but…
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Today’s Aphorism
It is not enough to write, you must revise;It is not enough to love, you must compromise.
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experimental meditation poem, no. 1
I lost it what is it objects mean where is it happening what him her shrinking away from the window what does it mean him her you keep saying it but what does it mean him her him her him 1,000,000 miles away closer closer closer closer closer a million miles away just stayed away…
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helpless to understand her dripping wet hair cast again salmon short shorts dipping sweets into coffee arhythmic now one cheek lips the seat of her chair like a slick, shimmering thing fighting back toward the sea her feet form and terror in flats, arc gently lifting the spirit reaches out across formica, bulk tile, thoughtless…
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super villain, no. 1 [draft]
Firstly, I’m begging— please stop —Let’s settle this: I’ve done nothing With my life &Deserve no thickly patAcross a hunched back Ten fingers, ten toesLove music, hate snowMiddle class, average nose So, quit it with the praise.Here’s my escape plan — no matter how bad it seemsfor me, hold the ambulances: [090320122231]
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