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BUG DEATH
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First published January 1, 1979
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August 20, 2010
MANY THANKS to my friend Jason Mitchell for turning me onto this fantastic, crazy fucking book! I LOVE BUG DEATH! Here's a sample (keep in mind Goodreads has no FUCKING MANNERS and will not allow proper indentation for poetry):
as the wheels turn in sleep
the roots of thin lives
always hopeful
naive & doomed.
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window. I am crazy. He knew
all about it. I told him, a
brain operation. It gets me,
it gets me some times.
YOU ARE THERE.
so the drama a face sweating
like glass mindless
&pure
he wanted to examine her mouth
but his eyes
shrunk back into dreams
into the secret colors
we each have
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AN ARTIFACT GLOWS IN THE SUN.
It's hard to show you all of the ways Nettelbeck writes on Goodreads, you just have to get the book yourself. It's filled with the most strange and exciting offshoots which are encapsulated in dash-lined boxes and some cut off the trimming of the page altogether. It's really terrific, and I'm so glad to have found out about this poet!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
as the wheels turn in sleep
the roots of thin lives
always hopeful
naive & doomed.
---------------------------------------
window. I am crazy. He knew
all about it. I told him, a
brain operation. It gets me,
it gets me some times.
YOU ARE THERE.
so the drama a face sweating
like glass mindless
&pure
he wanted to examine her mouth
but his eyes
shrunk back into dreams
into the secret colors
we each have
----------------------------------------
AN ARTIFACT GLOWS IN THE SUN.
It's hard to show you all of the ways Nettelbeck writes on Goodreads, you just have to get the book yourself. It's filled with the most strange and exciting offshoots which are encapsulated in dash-lined boxes and some cut off the trimming of the page altogether. It's really terrific, and I'm so glad to have found out about this poet!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
August 24, 2026
R.I.P. Fred. Which is not easy.
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