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    Bored

    From Titian Air Vent

    A work of art is a world of signs, at least to the poet’s

    nursery bookshelf sheltered behind the artist’s ear.

    I recall each little motto howling its ins and outs

    to those of us who might as well be on the moon

    illu illu illu

     

    Beacon

    A tiny artificial theater of the world. I am here to slay the

    dragon in the ready-made...

    Susan Howe
    b. 1937

    Ulysses

    It little profits that an idle king,

    By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

    Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole

    Unequal laws unto a savage race,

    That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

     

    I cannot rest from travel: I will drink

    Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d

    Greatly, have suffer’d...

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    1809-1892

    Poor Speaker

    I understand you.

    I get what you’re trying to say.

    What you’re trying to say is you want me to get it.

     

    I get it. You want me

    to understand. You want me to know

    not the words, but what’s behind them. Got it.

     

    You’re trying to tell me

    what you want me to hear. What I

    hear is all words, but that’s not...

    Sonnet L'Abbé


    Self-Portrait

    He wants to be

    a brutal old man,

    an aggressive old man,

    as dull, as brutal

    as the emptiness around him,

     

    He doesn’t want compromise,   

    ...

    Robert Creeley
    1926-2005

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