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A ChangeShe looked into my eyes today; / The reflection was not her own. / I could not convince her to stay.
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Mar 15, 2013
A few hours after the first time someoneA few hours after the first time someone / looks at you sardonically and says / "Grow up," you feel altogether alone.
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Aug 16, 2013
After Reading a Letter on the Daily BeastDear Grandma, / Yesterday on Broadway / I thought I saw your face
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Apr 13, 2013
After Reading "A Poet Tells Us How to Be Masters of the Machine" by W.H. AudenStatic of definite extinction, to whom are We allied? / If it is to Your noise, Your scatter and clean-up-later attitude, / then We are separatists.
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Sep 10, 2012
After the BombingMutilated chains of flowers / delineate where schoolboys cowered; / sixteen brick houses on St. James Street
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Oct 10, 2012
A Haiku Found Scrawled on Receipt PaperThe lambasted streets / in summer sing children’s songs. / Now snow scolds them mute.
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Sep 2, 2012
A Last Song*When all works are done / and my ambition’s gone, / my words just sleepers’ dreams at last;
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Aug 21, 2012
A Little Boy in Sunday School Said,"I'd like to find heaven before I die."
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Jul 11, 2013
Alligator PearOn this tan cutting board / You earn your corrupted name: / “Alligator pear.”
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Apr 7, 2015
All of us, when young, gaze onto this fieldAll of us, when young, gaze onto this field / Anxiously. At twenty-four-years old / We stand here feeling unbearably cold,
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Jul 17, 2014
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