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#alteration
You want to be manipulated, you like it this way, to be robbed from your agency, to be imprisoned deliberately. And in the sandbox play as you will, With known constraints And known space to fill. You want it altered just so enough As to tell things apart, But to be told where they belong, Hinted at what’s right or wrong. And in the new stuff find exhilaration , But newness is old news; Just give them the passion.
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May 9, 2020
May 9, 2020 at 11:52 AM UTC
Give Them the Passion (2020)
I wonder about Austria. Is it anything like cancelled Czechs? Do pigs fly? Is there a stranger there, to complicate the one in me? Or must I rearm my filling station? Can we trust otters to indicate us (who seem us only in the evil rush), our end never stooping to think? Oh, I was so right around you, my sonnet birdcage, once. No, cats' tails immersed in the frozen swamp are about all I have time for. The daylights are so Polaroid. Yet time is often self- centered. At least that’s how it feels to me.
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 10:17 PM UTC
Poem After New Year
I am concerned with that venison in America But the juice is soured. This weeping as I wanked out of control, After breaking cross-haired whims, Galloping backward and forward, ahead the past, Behind the unfamiliar future, What were we doing, or were we, The mattress, the limber of lice, or of loves We were measuring olives, continually? A moon soon to be forgiven In crossed girders of past, hip Brooklyn charcoal In this peeping that has sized you again?
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Jan 1, 2016
Jan 1, 2016 at 1:40 AM UTC
The man that can save poetry