#poetry

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"Over [10w] It's never ever over because the fat lady can't sing."

"The Road to Poetry Hell [10w] The road to poetry hell is likepaved with similes."

"Whose Asphalt Is It? [10w] The road to mediocrity is paved with asphalt and tarmac."

"Resist much, obey little."

"Grandma's Advice on Ambition "Children, if you aim for the stars you'll be impaled by small meteorites and become toast."

"I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch —This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Experience."

"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac"

"Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?"

"Perdue: It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken... ...it's all about steroids and crowd management."

"I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."

"Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill."

"Free Will [20w] A bunch of amino acids bumping up together is not the scientific explanation of free will, it's grilling a hamburger."

"What is the Meaning of Life? [10w] {3} To create its meaning every day we live and love."

"Ars Poetica: Dovetailing Collage [10w] Poems should be a dovetailing collage not a linear cohesion."

"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."

"California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?... ...cuz I got a fucking hangover."

"Mercy vs. Revenge "May God have mercy on my unfaithful, back-stabbing, adulterous husband because I sure as hell won't."

"Broken Heart [10W] The broken heart becomes volcanic, forever rumbling anddispersing ash."

"Some Semblance of Such "To lose one's identity to a Doppelgänger may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose multiple identities speaks of Nabakov."