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In one of the cartoons I watched as a child, Popeye the Sailor gives Olive Oyl a bouquet of flowers. She is thrilled, he walks on air, thinking they will marry. His one-eyed heroism is soon challenged by Bluto however, who pours cement into Popeye's bath. It goes…
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Together at last, we'd gotten this far toward the warm end of those sweet Promises we made, once, with our sincerest written and passed down smart Words, done all on our own deeds, with some real gusto, and offered them as Christmas Lights,…
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Lou Reed was sitting in CBGB,
I was sitting on Greenwich Ave. and West 10th street.
I didn't know him then and I didn't know him later either,
but we were both there.
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On his knees
he divinates diverging lines
with belly laughs he levitates
the rebel spheres into geodes .
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She said, “I think I’m pregnant,” but I thought that the sidewalk looked cleaner than usual,
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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Ghosts//
and the voice of God/
never actually visited you
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It was all I was convinced / in designing the encounter.
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I packed food for a lifetime, clothes and boots, all the guns, and the audio of our poetry...
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The crumbling meccas/
gnaw/
Each fiscal year’s quota of blood and bone,
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Walking down an unfamiliar street, / I heard a sudden caw of crows, / some thunder afar, strums of a lute— / a streetcar came flying along.
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Because if they’re wavering, it's about the coin, always about the coin.
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So today was basically mellow. The blue jays argued over who would bathe first in my fountain. When a squirrel showed up, the birds left, but the doves took their place. Our local woodpecker, apparently recovered from a day long headbanging session, returned to the…
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I kiss his sunburned nose, so nice under the beach house. We hear the shower of palm leaves like wings getting ready. We talk about a time we'll no longer know each other, when he'll be sad in a bar in another state, slipping and sliding and petting lost dogs in the parking…
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Our local low rent ice-based superhero said he’d had enough and would check back in early spring.
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When Matthew calls I'm sautéing garlic for the polenta and Joe is squeezing buttercream rosettes from a Ziploc bag onto a spice cake he made from scratch. Or trying to—we…
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"Stop watching the news!Because the news contrives to frighten youTo make you feel small and aloneTo make you feel that your mind isn't your own"--MorrisseyThe world has gone crazy, but please let me make you One of my healing songs. You can eat it now, if you…
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Wind pummeled me awake, smelling of pine and some quality of newness I could not identify...
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and we spun you, / spun you!
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I’m from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. I grew up in a lake. I think I’m half fish.
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What happened later that evening is unclear. When Mickey got back to his quarters, he was in good spirits. Buoyant even.
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Here’s an obvious fact: I live in Germany, but don’t speak much German. Okay, I speak very little German. Truth be told, hardly any.
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Larry works the concession stand / near the pier.
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The last one I tipped over the edge was just like all the others: fragile, pale, humming to himself as he sat on the ledge overlooking the gardens.
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Sometimes, they beat their masters home...
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now I cannot shake. I am only one person. Thereis a sadness I cannot understand. Fathom. Control. Manipulate. Detonate.I used to kiss her tenderly. Do you think this sadness is wise to us? Don't point that gun at me! There is a sadness. There is another war. Iam…
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What grabbed the mind when you heard about it was the way he did it.
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The subway train pulled up and I shuffled on board.
I announced to the whole subway car: “I’m a poet.”
And that was all I needed to do. It was like a miracle.
Someone got up immediately and gave me her seat.
People got in an orderly line and began
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The gulls/
have somehow mastered the art//
of avoiding the nooses of six-pack/
plastic rings
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