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What Can Kill You [by Lera Auerbach]
WHAT CAN KILL YOU No,indifferenceis notthe worst of it,and it doesn’t equate with loneliness.After allyou chooseyour feelings,even thoughit doesn’t seemlike a choice.No, it’s notyour sloppy senseof direction,alienating attitudesor unbearable shyness,which is, in fact,bearable,it is…
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“Desire Lines” [by David Shapiro]
David Shapiro describes the following as "a poem I received in a dream once. I couldn't believe I could rhyme in a dream! It was supposedly a popular rock song (in the dream!)" Desire…
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Shall We Dance?
Were it not for Top Hat and Swing Time,Shall We Dance would be my favorite of the Astaire-Rogers movies. The plot is as wonderfully ludicrous as a Shakespeare comedy, full of misunderstandings and…
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Did Kenneth Koch write Frank O’Hara’s “True Account of Talking to the Sun”? (continued)
For Kent Johnson's response to Tony Towle on the question of whether Kenneth Koch wrote Frank O'Hara's "True Account of Talking to the Sun", click right here Pictured are– left to right — Patsy…
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Newsweek Sells
A sobering moment for me — and such friends as John Ashbery, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, David Gates, all of whom wrote for Newsweek — was the news that a nonagenarian stereo-equipment magnate has…
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“Questions for You” [by David Shapiro]
Questions for You What was there to do? And so I — I forget. I what? Stole the bluejay? I loved you without a future, without an image, without reference What do you represent,…
