87940
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People speak of wordsmiths, as if they hammer text into shape; smelting down clunky prose, recasting from white-hot ink.
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130298
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I think I remember now why people write poetry.
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113554
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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107510
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What if
Everything
I have been doing
Hasn’t been heard
By anyone?
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96400
|
It’s just another
Day where I feel tired, but I
Don’t know why it’s so.
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99720
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I’m starting to feel more interested in my savings account.
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109242
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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98911
|
There’s a room
Full of white
And it smells
Like bleach and
Iron
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94742
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A man walks up and faces
this new red brick wall
The bricks are all perfect
as you might expect in a dream
And the cement is tuck-pointed
without a dribble, anywhere
He looks at the wall
and puts his head through it
And when he pulls h
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1146109
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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
|
184133
|
What if your teeth fell
like so many rain drops
gathered in a river
|
86243
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I'm looking for the perfect/passage, a safe, sound/jettison to now.
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115232
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Bum on a Parisian stoop begging
with his big Jackson Pollack
bare head in the rain
The water running in streaks
all over his brain
reminding him of a painting
he once thought of
Man standing outside a bar
talking to his own reflection
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102789
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They can’t exterminate the poor just yet
|
85611
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Could I cache your kisses?
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