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Freud Quiz #5
What is the "compulsion to repeat"? (a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you — in an effort to master the fear (b) the wish to make the same mistake twice,…
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“She Who Disbands Armies” by Amy Lawless
This poem was ruled ineligible for the BAP challenge because the poet left out a letter of Louise Gluck’s name and the resulting poem was one line short. Nevertheless "She Who Disbands Armies" so…
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Maggie Wells on The Boys of Summer: Part 3, It Came From Trieste
I woke up on a Friday with an insatiable hunger for a European man. I had been in Paris and my body was in rapture. I spoke to my friends all afternoon about going…
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Maggie Wells on The Boys of Summer: Part 2, The French Jew
There is something difficult about the overly emotionally available man when you have been behaving like a wild Indian. He wants to pin you in bed, tells you he wants to take care of…
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Maggie Wells on The Boys of Summer: Part 1, Introduction
Coco You’re actually a lot more approachable than you look, Coco told me while his muscles clung tightly to his bones. It’s the eye area. The eye area looks far more intense than the…
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A “Finally” and a Thanks, by Cate Marvin
I have my doubts as to whether anyone’s been reading my blogging. That’s fine. I’m used to not being read. I write poetry, after all. I just want to say in closing (I first…
