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“God has Pity on Kindergarten Children” [by Yehuda Amichai]
God has pity on kindergarten children.He has less pity on school childrenAnd on grownups he has no pity at all,he leaves them alone,and sometimes they must crawl on all foursin the burning sandto reach…
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Janet Hamill: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When It Snowed It was almost holy when it snowed waiting to see Santa at Sears for a photo in a plaid coat & mittens the real one was at Macy’s in…
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Merry Christmas! “Little Tree” [poem by e.e. cummings]
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Wm Logan on Frank O’Hara
Re: "Death is often a good career move in poetry" (the first sentence of William Logan's review of Frank O'Hara's Selected) as if FOH committed suicidewhen all he did was watch the tide drunk as…
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Herb Engelhardt invents the haiku
Greasy Spoon I watched the ownerpocket a two-dollar tipleft for a waitress. And I felt sorryfor the guy, knew he would diehated by his kids. — Herbert Engelhardt (1925-2021) Herbert Engelhardt was born in…