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Yellowstone, 1985Beast surfacing, the geyser blows / sea-spume that sudden, broaching, slows / to blue, then falls, no prim fountain
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Even If You Garotte It In Its Sleep, The Cat Still WinsSay you want a cat. A dog's too easy, / would wag when wag is inappropriate, / and slobber on the guests. You'll take the cat,
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Andromeda's RantJust because a girl is pretty / they chain you to a freaking *rock*, / invite the tide to nibble? Shitty
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Modern Love 2.0 (10-word poem X 10)1 / Congratulations / on your maturation:
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To Penelope, Ithaca*-- Wish You Were Here* -- standard postcard greeting / *-- Poems aren't postcards to send home* -- Anne Sexton / Dear friends, dear friends at home, resent
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In Autumn RiverbedThis world's a story / filled with stones: those five / smooth ones; some temple
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Accustomed to Your FarceA gesture's worth a thousand words, / intimations of the body articulate: / my gas-passing interrogatives,
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Broken Birdsong, Pity, Demons DreamThat kiss that burned one Tuesday, four a.m., / Won't make it into any bulletin, / Nor that flicker-flash of bird, that garden time,
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Cads Who DreamLove's a loaded craps game, played / by crappy people, lads who dream / a sweet and willing cavalcade
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What Is It Falls?Even the stars, they say, and worlds -- but first, / It's April rain, it's light on greening gardens -- / One sparrow, yes, in book and branch -- then worse,
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