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Written by
Jack Spicer |
This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry.
The ocean
Does not mean to be listened to.
A drop
Or crash of water.
It means
Nothing.
It
Is bread and butter
Pepper and salt.
The death
That young men hope for.
Aimlessly
It pounds the shore.
White and aimless signals.
No
One listens to poetry.
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Written by
Jack Spicer |
If the diamond ring turns brass
Mama's going to buy you a looking glass
Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
going on a picnic together when they were all students at the
University of Pennsylvania
Now they are all over seventy and the absent baby
Is a mirror sheltering their image.
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Written by
Jack Spicer |
A dead starfish on a beach
He has five branches
Representing the five senses
Representing the jokes we did not tell each other
Call the earth flat
Call other people human
But let this creature lie
Flat upon our senses
Like a love
Prefigured in the sea
That died.
And went to water
All the oceans
Of emotion.
All the oceans of emotion
are full of such ffish
Why
Is this dead one of such importance?
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Written by
Jack Spicer |
Rest and look at this goddamned wheelbarrow.
Whatever
It is.
Dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps.
Not
For their significance.
For their significant.
For being human
The signs escape you.
You, who aren't very bright
Are a signal for them.
Not,
I mean, the dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps.
Not
Their significance.
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Written by
Jack Spicer |
Hush now baby don't say a word
Mama's going to buy you a mocking bird
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior.
The third
Joyful mystery.
If the mocking bird don't sing
Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring
The diamond ring is God, the mocking bird the Holy Ghost.
The third
Joyful mystery.
The joy that descends on you when all the trees are cut down
and all the fountains polluted and you are still alive waiting
for an absent savior.
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