January 2011
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December 2010
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BLOG POST I WROTE IN OCTOBER
Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) wrote a poem called “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.” It was anthologized in The New American Poetry 1945–1960. That was one of the books I had to get for a poetry class I took.
While trying to find the poem to re-read it, I googled “preface to a 40 volume.” There was only one result. In 2004, someone with the online handle...
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IT DON’T MATTER
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$5 POEM BY JORDAN CASTRO
I solicited indie lit boy Jordan Castro (via his holiday sale) to write a poem about killing cops. It will appear alongside other poems, including Zachary German’s “ZACKY GERMY NUMBY ONEY COPPY KILLY,” in an anthology I’m editing titled Suicide By Cop: Revolutionary Internet Poetry of the Early 21st Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2050).
dumpster ass cop guns
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LUCAS RUPPEL Y MARGARITA...
it’s not important to me to write a poem
who do you believe i am, robert frost?
i’ve never something in the something and i hate walking
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god help me, i’m about to throw my neighbor off the building
/ i drank 40 liters of rice with milk and the something something to my car
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now they are more than something
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something a program on the history channel about the mayan...
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shrug life
i want my entire life to be used up like the indians did those buffaloes
i want everything i ever owned or touched to be gathered up and burnt with my body and the ashes fed to the starving children
i want my every thought and experience to be written down on paper and distributed in the third world for people to wipe their asses with
i want to collect all of the shitty, worthless...
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