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Monthly Archives: December 2009

You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves

Read “The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand.

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Loves to pretend he’s Jay-Z in the shower

Read “Boyfriend Disclaimer” by Molly Williams.

It wasn’t to blame/But I called it a name.

Read “The Objection to Being Stepped On” by Robert Frost.

“After Love” by Sara Teasdale

There is no magic any more,       We meet as other people do, You work no miracle for me       Nor I for you. You were the wind and I the sea–       There is no splendor any more, I have grown listless as the pool       Beside the shore. But though the pool is safe from storm       And [...]

It’s just like The Bodysnatchers!

his skeleton carved from glaciers

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

Read “Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Louis Simpson).

they jump only once, lie still/like dead beer cans.

Read “Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump” by David Bottoms.

And those who expected lightning and thunder/Are disappointed.

Read “A Song On the End of the World” by Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Anthony Milosz).

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