Today, I like this poem. I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! …
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Life is fine
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THE HORROR
Go ahead. Leave the room for five minutes. He will find your college poetry, and you will find him sheepishly, wickedly reading it.
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Today, on WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS?
This smart and adorable woman, Jacqueline Suskin, sits at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market and writes poems on command for perfect strangers, for however much you want to pay her. You give her a topic, let’s …
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When a Woman loves a Man
A poem from E’s wedding that’s stuck with me: David Lehman, 1948 When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, “I’ll never speak to you again," …