March 2012
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Try Not To Worry
What you are telling me, if I have it correctly, is this: “Knowing there will — always — be some thing suffering is the same as bearing a grudge against everything else”? Somehow I believe it. Honey, is your doorbell working? Honey, I have been meaning to stop by and drop off a tear, tonight. But Murphy’s Law’s got my hands tied. Murphy thinks he has got it figured out. But there are no bets on...
February 2012
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Song in my heart by Diane Seuss
If there’s pee on the seat it’s my pee, battery’s dead I killed it, canary at the bottom of the cage I bury it, like God tromping the sky in his undershirt carrying his brass spittoon, raging and sobbing in his Hush Puppy house slippers with the backs broke down, no Mrs. God to make him reasonable as he gets out the straight razor to slice the hair off his face, using the Black Sea as a mirror...
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No Matter What Happens, The Important Part Is What...
you. you are. you are trying. you are trying to remember. you are trying to remember something. you are trying to remember something & it is not here & you are trying to remedy that. you have got one foot out of the door, but you only noticed because you felt it swing tight. you — YOU, me i am talking to me, you, & if you have made it to this point, keep going....
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Signs for Travelers
[Jean Follain imitation poem assignment] Travelers from great spaces: when you see the ducks hung, inverted dry & bronze, like the gaggles of sun-hags on Miami Beach, the roast pig split among steel trays flagging steam through a peek in the window glass & when moreover you see near a cart vending pickled jellyfish a beggar weaving bamboo strips into conic wicker pea-shooters &...
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On Hearing Of Szymborska, Passing
News came over after the telephone it rang & so I picked it up & my sister told it to me: Wislawa Szymborska died to day. at 88 & I thought: Oh, impossible she is too young to die. Too young. Like a child pocket sleuth setting perimeter around gravel by the swing sets & like the universe is as young or as old as the moment it collapses. Wislawa Szymborska is dead & no one is...
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