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Negative Poem
i don’t want to do your workdo you want to do your workwork is screamingat the doga terrible personwho can’t be botheredwith other people the dog lays thereright thereher allergiesher anxietieson the leafy greensand onionskinand cries not at meshe’s a good girlat the baby nursingon her belly littleheart beating so fasti don’t want to thinkof…
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“Feminist Modes of Production” by Arielle Greenberg
This poem appears in Arielle Greenberg’s 2015 book “Slice” from Coconut Press. Her work is brilliant, please support her writing.
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Hourly Labor Rate, Plus Materials
curators offer a variety of their subjective photography the customer will have been satisfactorily abused and served through technological advances in counting the service understands people places approaches and circulation methods though we still promise to never index works from information the subjective photographs have been used to concatenate and share xerophagiac critique since 1839…
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Formica Office Furniture
with one finger i look up at the clock what time is it when will we worm you and me; where do we go from here to the back seat of my filthy afterthought or your candlelit cantaloupe i am careful to avoid using the word invade
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Cosmopolitan Bias
Wikipedia Poem, No. 570 the forest thick with dread cut by compulsive slashes bearing no particular reward through the forest thick about hunger masturbation nation online video games reading about hunger masturbation of crackling wilderness a dozen cups of crackling no particular reward through the forest except forest think of a dread wilderness a dozen…
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“The Sausage Master of Minsk” by August Kleinzahler
I was sausage master of Minsk; young girls brought parsley to my shop and watched as I ground coriander, garlic and calves’ hearts. At harvest time they’d come with sheaves: hags in babushkas, girls plump as quail, wrapped in bright tunics, switching the flanks of oxen. Each to the other, beast and woman, goggle-eyed at…
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David Remnick
Referential in a way John Ashbery could never be — I’ve yet to read John Ashbery. I’m at the ironbark dreaming, Except I’m not; I’m ironstone. The world will not let me Say what I mean; or I Come across Weak, watered down And cheap. I’m afraid to pay For what I deserve; “Alright. Honey,…
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Dear Poets
. FORM I don’t want to tell you how to do your job I don’t want to tell you how to do your job FORM FORM I don’t want to tell you how to do your job I don’t want to tell you how to do your job FORM FORM I don’t want to tell…
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I Think You’re Using That Word Incorrectly
Wikipedia Poem, No. 426 important instances mannied amongst old norse cannon another subjective occasion to sing expedience skalds far beyond what would be natural infomatic meaning like business cards where are my men and will it be natural to metaphor thus for our leader important men will intervene among basewords order arrives in skalds not…
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Three Poems
Dan Flavin in me he is sequestered and afeard in the farmost angle im possible im aginable his back behind his back the implication of darkness elsewhere is blood red pitch you see what you want in the light Cy Twombly 250,000 plans planning has become essential and numbers no matter how abstract and this…
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