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July 24, 2011

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That poetry is insufficient cover for professional opinions.
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Published on July 24, 2011 15:37

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That the poem in its career is primed to the warrant of the Literature.
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Published on July 24, 2011 12:45

34

That the poem in its career is primed to the warrant of the Literature.
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Published on July 24, 2011 12:45

Visible Settlements

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Hesitation is the actuary of the poem. 
All this forsaken urgency, contemplated as risks to a public business, like nyjer seed scattering across a ledger.
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Published on July 24, 2011 12:31

July 18, 2011

Actuaries at Peace

Anything is the measure of joy.

The most important thing is not to die.
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Published on July 18, 2011 10:10

May 10, 2011

Practice

A deep unremitting intelligence, its extensibility, and then the fear of attenuation.

It could be livable.

That despite all this freighted expectancy, it comes wrong.

That despited
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Published on May 10, 2011 06:39

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That despite all this freighted expectancy, it comes wrong in the poem.
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Published on May 10, 2011 06:36

This Time It's for Real

Against expression.

Really?

All this endurance of the business and the cruelty to arrive at reticence–– and retention?

A hold-back project, as nostalgic as self-loathing, even where the self is accidentally yours.

My son is also against expression, mostly anxiously, surprised or unsure that he is also a container –– until periodically he arrives at a consensus and participates –– shitting copiously, and gratefully.
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Published on May 10, 2011 06:31

April 24, 2011

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Does humility concede a force, or is it mere reluctance?
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Published on April 24, 2011 22:44

March 7, 2011

3.7.11

There is confession and then there is Tripoli.

Which is to say that confession communicates the least.
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Published on March 07, 2011 01:49