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“Not with a Bang but a Tweet” [by Robert Schultz]
Fourteen, one-forty—what’s the difference Besides concision? Lines, characters, syllables, It’s all just counting (0101). Sense Spills through little tubes its billion baubles. Until it doesn’t. We, the fat, fail. The grid Fails, satellites fall.…
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“Far North Farm” [by John Tranter]
A, silver, E, snow, U, dead-leaf green:Spoons with sugar and dripping water, hillocks of snowTraversed by hopeful young men with a moneyed glowAnd sleds and perspiration, silver-blue clouds againChilling the horizon, a thousand miles…
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“The Apartment” [by Joan Biddle]
They live on the street side of the building,we live on the back side. They hear duets of men and smoke, we hear birds chirp and cover a fridge with pictures. They shave each…
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“Happy 157, George Bernard Shaw!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (7/26/1856)George Bernard Shaw!I’m sure I don’t knaw!That goofy-ass hatIs against the law.I’m standing in snowshoes,In panties and bra:I’m singing sea shantiesTo George Bernard Shaw!George Bernard ShawDetected the flawIn elbowy lampAnd in…
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The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner (by Jamie Katz)
his bronze portrait bust of German composer Richard Wagner, by artist Arno Breker, resides in Bayreuth, Germany, home of the annual festival honoring his work. (Getty Images ) She is Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughter, and…
