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Standouts:

"Unclench Yourself"
"The Poet Dreams of a Nice Warm Motel"
"Skimpy Day at the Solstice"
"The Market Economy"

Highlights:

• “The Best Defense is Offensive”
• “To Be of Use”
• “Doing it Differently”
• “The Nine of Cups”
• “The Seven of Pentacles”

“Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time.” (128)

From: “The woman in the ordinary”

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass, compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple, like a handgrenade set to explode, like goldenrod ready to bloom.

Other standouts:
• “I will not be your sickness”
• “A just anger”
• “Hello Up There”
• “High frequency”
• “Burying blues for Janis”

Standouts:

1. “The Peaceable Kingdom”
- “Peace: the world lies like a smooth turd on the tongues of politicians”

2. “Breaking Camp”
- “I will not abandon you. I come shuddering from the warm tangles of winter sleep choosing you compulsively, repetitiously, dumbly as breath.” (28)

3. “Community”

4. “The Morning Half-Life Blues”
- “Living is later. This is your rented death.” (40)

Standout: “Concerning the mathematician”