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Walking Back Up Depot Street
2023-12-06by Minnie Bruce Pratt In Hollywood, California (she'd been told) women travel on roller skates, pull a string of children, grinning, gaudy- eyed a...
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Dead Center
2023-12-06August in Indiana: a heavy moon hung over space where there was almost nothing but one big town at dead center. Grasshoppers popped under tires, the t...
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by Jane Hirshfield But with the sentence: "Use your failures for paper." Meaning, I understood, the backs of failed poems, but also my life....
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Waking in the Blue
2023-12-06by Robert Lowell The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. He catwa...
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Days of Rome
2023-12-06Days of nothingness Days of clear skies the temperature descending Days of no telephone calls or all the wrong ones Days ofcomplete boredom and nothin...
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Days of Me
2023-12-06When people say they miss me, I think how much I miss me too, Me, the old me, the great me, Lover of three women in one day, Modest me, the best me, f...
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Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah
2023-12-06by Ishmael Ait Djafer (Translated by Jack Hirschman) The hands of the poor people of the Casbah are long and thin and stretched like the roots of pota...
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Day of the Refugios
2023-12-06I was born in Nogales, Arizona, On the border between Mexico and the United States. The places in between places They are like little countries Themse...
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Your Father Sunbathing
2023-12-06by Christopher Bursk Sundays, your father climbs out a window onto the roof, looking for somewhere there are no women, nothing else to do but undress,...
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Your Catfish Friend
2023-12-06by Richard Brautigan If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one ...