Author Archives
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Valentine’s Day straddles the Atlantic
“Why does everyone look so unhappy!” Bursting with heroin, a New York lady Makes her presence known, boarding the subway. “People, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day!” Stumbling with sacks into a nearby seat, She mumbles about how she’ll live on… Read More ›
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We all need breasts
In a New York Belgian restaurant a woman’s coat lies open on the floor. She has just slept through the most important meeting of her life. An art dealer is waiting for money from Turkey and talking heatedly into… Read More ›
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Happy days are here again (pastiche)
Happy days are here again The air is being controlled again The wall is still not built again Happy days are here again Altogether shout it now The Tweeter’s through, who can doubt it now We’re gonna pay our… Read More ›
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One again rises, having addressed the ages, history and all creation
With phone in hand, not soon from the bathroom With pants neatly cinched and curls not awry After such sitting without discharging After such texting without reflecting O to have enjoyed some peace and quiet O to have… Read More ›
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OK, so
for A.H. OK, so I didn’t include you in an e-mail, OK, so this fact got lodged in the back of my mind, OK, so in sleep some of that back stuff comes to the front, OK, so, your mouth… Read More ›
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Autobiographia Literaria (after Frank O’Hara)
By William Eaton (O’Hara text below) When I was a child There was an old tree where my sisters and I played – fantasies. There was not much else around – an old barn, grass and sheep…. Read More ›
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As far as I can tell, the latest sexual-harassment guidelines do not outlaw poetry
When we began to attack traditional ways of expressing sexual desire – when We began to criminalize suggestive or insulting sounds, or sexual innuen- Does, and sexual activities including kissing! and remarks about people’s clothing Or bodies, unwanted humor or… Read More ›
