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The Walrus » Poetry
1w ago
I submit to winter’s / half-melt shame and kneel / before summer’s trumped-up / flames.
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The Walrus » Poetry
1M ago
“If you act like a nobody, / you are a nobody. The actor / Woody Strode wasn’t / just any nobody.”
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The Walrus » Poetry
2M ago
I wonder how it feels—he asked nobody
in particular, to want anything that much?
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The Walrus » Poetry
3M ago
Have I always been in the world? / No, I’ve been autumn in the middle of August.
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The Walrus » Poetry
4M ago
Just pick a stranger, and do the human dance, / Wagering your lost soul on your last romance
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The Walrus » Poetry
4M ago
What is invisible is unreal, like love, / hunger, rage.
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The Walrus » Poetry
5M ago
And what is thunder, and what makes stories end?
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The Walrus » Poetry
6M ago
Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death
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The Walrus » Poetry
7M ago
Marine monotony, ocean giving way to ocean, / a grammar of latitudinal minutes, hours, days.
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