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Benjy at Buddha Bodhai [by Joel Weiner]
In lower Manhattan there's a kosher vegan restaurantBy name Buddha BodhaiBuddha wasn't a Jew nor did he observe KashrutThe code of Jewish law regarding food observanceSo he did eat leopard and may have incarnated…
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Two Prose Poems in the New “DMQ” [by David Lehman]
Two Prose Pems by David Lehman My Dinner with Michel Foucault Foucault called me Jack. He called everyone Jack. He called Derrida Jack, not Jacques (Jock), when the two them were on speaking terms,…
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nourbeSe philip: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________ The Poets Awoke The poets awoke The poets awoke one morning The poets awoke one morning to find The poets awoke…
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“You’ll Get Nowhere” and “Superannuated Man” [by Mitch Sisskind]
You’ll Get Nowhere In the whole world only one restaurantWas patronized by both Leon TrotskyAnd Bela Bartok. That would be theOld 57th Street Automat in Manhattan.Go into any restaurant today and askWhether…
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A Blast from the Past: Fake MFA Rankings (2010) [by Stacey Lehman]
MFA Rankings – Not Again! It's hard to believe that Poets and Writers returned to the same poisoned well that it drank from last year for a ranking of MFA programs but it did,…
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“The Great DiMaggio” [an astrological profile, by David Lehman]
Joltin’ Joe: The Great DiMaggio [an astrological profile] Joe DiMaggio [pictured left, with sometime spouse] loved smoking. He favored Chesterfields, though he also enjoyed Camels and promoted them in advertisements. (“They have the mildness…
