self-help
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Review of Trilobyte
“Trilobyte is a prime example of ‘write the poem you want to read.’ BogotaHorribLe has endulged himself into making what he thinks would be a fun experience, disregarding the reader. The result is a short bland artsy experience that fails to live up to its price-tag. A clunky conceit, and forced boring ‘anthropological’ images (one…
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Artifacts of Reference, No. 62
God hard-press crushed; perplexed, in despair; persecuted, forsaken; struck down, destroyed. battles. deception, defeat, destruction, death. roar into you Angels chase wilderness in audacious strange heir. Confident throne. Earnest requests of blood spill your God. if you have a mountain jump God Will do what you want
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‘the ble toes. the ben? an.’
Wikipedia Poem, No. 813 treestars of spture mythstrongle ot reman asay what ment thru that throe the myth the d turngth t away me ought thru wood of the coripturipturu trer dyour fic lo, inter or ong sofoot and cut it therupt browna but i am s vacat tur coul as that say. like we…
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Self-Portrait (Memnon’s Remix)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 652 i know what precisely to say do i say a few years back what’s right and how much of love is high cheek bones and how many high cheek bones gatherd here how low the creek groans bones and how much left i felt the thin cracks in what’s right and…
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How to Write a Poem (Topography)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 571 radiate what errs as if it’s that simple take words mind nimble blades being best free let them delicate among tantalizing ableness let mind belong let it glide to prayer and grasp the error of being
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 275
generalize calculate die decide decide decide decide decide decide decide purify theorize generalize finalize localize imagine combine combine reach appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear appear approach is a generalize transform transform big top forecast combine exacerbate test manifest summarize stablize accelerate reach…
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invisible fortune cookie
open your throat and taste the bathroom air in your m outh your lungs on your lip s youre not smelling but there it is shit what can be d one but to now close your mouth dummy you dont have to do everything pe ople tell you love it all
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Punchline
“I am often asked why I write, and I don’t know really—I just want to.” John Ashbery in The Paris Review
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how the locksmith helped, draft 102120120753
you locked the door behind, you what else could i do? you were young, i wanted more. in his suicide note K dreamed about Freddie — admired, envied — never locked their door. silent, wind and highway light crawling sharp, i remember you mad against the white brick wall posed as imperfection. i had the…
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