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“That memory is so crushing
why write me letters
I already know.”
―
why write me letters
I already know.”
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“I hear children screaming
I want to awaken them
to show them the hog's blood
and make them start screaming”
― Nice Hat. Thanks.
I want to awaken them
to show them the hog's blood
and make them start screaming”
― Nice Hat. Thanks.
“We could power a city with this energy, but it'd be a waste.”
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“[Lying in bed I think about you]"
Lying in bed I think about you,
your ugly empty airless apartment
and your eyes. It’s noon, and tired
I look into the rest of the awake day
incapable of even awe, just
a presence of particle and wave,
just that closed and deliberate
human observance. Your thin fingers
and the dissolution of all ability. Lay
open now to only me that white body,
and I will, as the awkward butterfly,
land quietly upon you. A grace and
staying. A sight and ease. A spell
entangled. A span. I am inside you.
And so both projected, we are now
part of a garden, that is part of a
landscape, that is part of a world
that no one believes in.”
― Shake
Lying in bed I think about you,
your ugly empty airless apartment
and your eyes. It’s noon, and tired
I look into the rest of the awake day
incapable of even awe, just
a presence of particle and wave,
just that closed and deliberate
human observance. Your thin fingers
and the dissolution of all ability. Lay
open now to only me that white body,
and I will, as the awkward butterfly,
land quietly upon you. A grace and
staying. A sight and ease. A spell
entangled. A span. I am inside you.
And so both projected, we are now
part of a garden, that is part of a
landscape, that is part of a world
that no one believes in.”
― Shake
“Leave New York or the poem will kill you.”
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“Love is bobbing with the unconcerned weave of the current
and particularly I feel this way when I am around you.
Sometimes, in the night, the earth will change for a man
the earth will open up for him and his belonging.
When I am out in the world and the air does its little displacement
with my body, I think of you moving with the horizon
in and out of view.
— Joshua Beckman, from “Block Island,” Something I Expected to be Different (Verse Press, 2001)”
― Something I Expected to Be Different
and particularly I feel this way when I am around you.
Sometimes, in the night, the earth will change for a man
the earth will open up for him and his belonging.
When I am out in the world and the air does its little displacement
with my body, I think of you moving with the horizon
in and out of view.
— Joshua Beckman, from “Block Island,” Something I Expected to be Different (Verse Press, 2001)”
― Something I Expected to Be Different
“I am not right for you, though I think about it all the time”
― Something I Expected to Be Different
― Something I Expected to Be Different
