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Standouts:

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

"And if the sufferings of children have gone to replenish the sum of suffering that was needed to purchase the truth, then I declare in advance that no truth, not even the whole truth is worth such a price...It isn't God I don't accept, Alyosha, it's just his ticket that I most respectfully return to him." (320)

"But then again, still not having gone five paces, he turned around one last time, but this time without the twisted laughter in his features, which, on the contrary, were now convulsed with tears. In a rapid, wailing, jerking, choking patter he managed to bark out:

'What would I be able to tell my little boy, if I took money from you for our disgrace?' (278)

"I shall be his god, to whom he will say his prayers -- and that is the least that he owes me for his betrayal and for what I endured on account of him yesterday."

Need an espresso martini and a diva dish session with Katerina Ivanovna. That is all.

"Painterly composition, control, and modulations of color are in explicit opposition to cinematic chance, openness to the profilmic, and visual ambiguity." (24)

Hm yeah sure oKaY

Standouts: "O Black and Unknown Bards"

"You sang not deeds of heroes or of kings;
No chant of bloody war, no exulting paean
Of arms-won triumphs; but your humble strings
You touched in chord with music empyrean.
You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners' hungry hearts sufficed
Still live -- but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ." (26)

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”