by Harold Norse
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Wednesday, June 10 |
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Carnivorous Saint
we dig up ancient shards clicking cameras among the dying cypresses choked by Athenian smog.
yet cats continue basking in the hazy sun the chained goat sways in ecstasy the Parthenon looks down from creamy heights lichen and rust nibble the pediments and tourist feet break the spell of antiquity's vibrations
the grass hits as I look at rusty orangeade caps thinking Who needs nuclear Apollo? thermonuclear Minerva? Nike crashing to grand finale?
we need the anti-Christ who is probably playing football around the corner the sweet boy who used to be called Eros and wants us to be happy.
bring back the carnivorous saint whose mother is no virgin she's Our Lady of Peace Movements to ban the bomb and clean up the air she'll wave her umbrella and change the world.
ah yes, when the grass hits old worlds burn down and new worlds form in clouds of brown monoxide morning.
Athens, Jan. 1964 |
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by Janine Canan
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Saturday, May 30 |
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One hundred years ago in the French Pyrenees, a poet wrote lyrics of extraordinarily pure feeling. His name was Francis Jammes. His joyful, however sorrowful, poems express an innocence and simplicity as natural as the song of a bird or the love of a child. |
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by A. D. Winans
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Saturday, May 23 |
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70TH BIRTHDAY POEM
70 years old feeling like a samurai With a dull bladed sword singing Into the blade of night
Somewhere beyond the horizon Sailors buried at sea Rise in ghostly procession
Skeletons sharing their secrets With withered old men Lined-up like bowling pins Measuring them limb to limb like A tailor sizing you up For a perfect fit |
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by Peyton Burgess
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Thursday, May 21 |
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fresh from the Cabildo! |
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by Dave Breithaupt
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Thursday, May 21 |
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Special to the Corpse: Ohio Poet Makes Peace With self! |
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by Ms. Su Zi
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Thursday, May 21 |
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Belleview High School Instructor of English |
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by Tom Clark and Hitler
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Sunday, May 03 |
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Untitled study of a dog: Adolf Hitler (n.d.) The Wizard makes the argument The Wizard explains |
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by Ken Mikolowski
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Wednesday, March 18 |
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ECONOMIC CRISIS buy low stay high |
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by David Berrigan
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Saturday, February 28 |
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by Marius Conkan
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Wednesday, February 25 |
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the son shouts and death reluctantly undresses |
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by Vincent A. Cellucci
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Wednesday, February 25 |
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Nothing drums Exceptionalism like suppressing it silence breathes shouts stone owns the sun settles eternity: the dust spins an exception our faithless refine salute corpses blocking keyholes seven times mine superinfancy anger’s angels pull hair-- finger heaven p.s. infinity plugged with puddles |
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by Sam Abrams
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Wednesday, February 18 |
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MOTHER OF A TRILLION ORGASMS Holy Margaret Sanger Patron Saint of Orgasm who first freed sexual pleasure from association with reproduction’ before birth control how many million women died in childbed how many husbands became “the blandly unconscious murderers of those they loved and had pledged themselves to protect” murdered by the urges of loving husbands |
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by Tom Clark
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Wednesday, January 28 |
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for George Schneeman 1934-2009Thinking about George in January in California The sinking sun lights a few late Streamers of cloud with faint blooms Like the distant inklings of All one remembers |
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by David Breithaupt
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Saturday, January 17 |
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Goodbye Andrew Wyeth, Thanks for the crippled Girl Crawling through the weeds Etched on to our collective Jungian attic- Why didn't you buy her a wheel chair, You know you should have. Cheapshit. |
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by Andrei Molotiu
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Wednesday, January 14 |
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THE FIFTHS SCHERZO FOR A ROAD MOVIE (for two voices, his in roman characters, hers in italics) |
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by Megan Volpert
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Saturday, January 03 |
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any secrets can keep to infinity as long as they aren't my own |
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