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Shakespeare: Maybe We Need to
See Other People
Cf.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 39
Perhaps
if we separated for a few days
We
would find more passion in our love
(Please note
all this artsy empty space)
After
fourteen empty lines I find
My
deep, abiding love for you stronger than ever
But
who’s this…you’re seeing some other man?
THIS
ISN’T WHAT I MEANT!
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“I’ll
Be Away from My Desk for a Few Days”
“Look
upon my absence, Ye mighty, and despair”
-as Shelley
did not say
Every once in an ego you’ll read on a site
“I’ll be away from my desk for a few days”
As if everyone must re-schedule his life
And wait forlornly for Mr. O’s return
Nothing else remains 404 Error 404 Error
404 Error 404 Error 404 Error 404 Error
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The Spirit of Art
Is
The
good, the true, the beautiful
Not
The
sullen, the resentful, the envious
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Smoke Drifting Across America
“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”
Columbia campus protester apologises for 'kill Zionists' comments (bbc.com)
Ash-grey smoke drifts across America
“That’s a false narrative”
“That’s a false narrative”
“That’s a false narrative”
The narrative is metaphorical; the smoke is real -
Ashes and smoke from Auschwitz, from burning Jews
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The Governor of South Dakota Takes a Shot at the Vice-Presidency
Who is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem? Dog controversy, more to know (usatoday.com)
Blazing a trail of death and bloody fur
She shot her dog, her goat, three horses too
Somehow they failed her, and so, we must concur
She executed them in a bloody coup
When her family's animals disappoint her
She shoots them; she feels that’s her duty to do
Silencing each substandard bark, bleat, and purr -
Now what if she becomes disappointed in
you?
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Let’s Meet Again Next Week or Next Life
Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 32
To ask to be remember’ed
is good
Both for the humble asker
and for the asked -
For both will pause to
consider mortality
And both will pause to
enjoy the happy now
We understand this world
will pass away
That all created things must
collapse and die
And yet we are promised
them back again
And each other too, in
saecula saeculorum
Then, yes, please, do remember
me, if you would -
To ask to be remember’ed
is good
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Let Us Proceed to Sonnet 32
Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 31
There is a reason why Boris Pasternak
Did not recite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31
To the Soviet Writers’ Conference in ’37 -
It’s a mess
