So ordinary. All of them the same. Living in lifeless boxes, Doing the same things In unison, laughing at The same awful things, Talking about nothing, Hating the same people, Afraid of everything, Driving the same loud Metal machines, Not an original thought In the bunch, a terrible Gathering of mediocrity Fancying itself great.
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The ‘reality’ is a maze Too hazy for my naïve Girlhood Fiction is worse Love ends in loss Or hatred I was once waiting for him The prince charming The ‘Mr Darcy’ But not anymore Now I’ve chosen The men of my world Derrida, Marx and Camus Whose arguments wipe my Humiliated tears Whose philosophies…
Some say “familiarity breeds contempt.” But it can also feed forbearance And a certain kind of kindness. What was epiphany becomes assurance, And even a blessed bond of blindness. The sharp edges blur as the days all rush, Run and whir into weeks and months and years. Where did they all go? We wonder, Living…
I) Yes, he died (1) At Freiberg (then part of Moravia) of a gunshot wound said to be self-inflicted on 6 May 1856 (2) In London of throat cancer on 23 September 1939 (3) Brokenhearted in North London of bronchitis on March 14, 1883 (4) In Paris, executed by guillotine, 28 July 1794 (5) In…
What the Streets Look Like Mom: the sweet rotted summer stench still taps the nasal cavity inside breezes several times per block. I have a greater empathy for pigeons after two months at work in the unnatural country, & find it instinctively nerve- wracking to remove my wallet from its pocket here in town despite…
For my last post on A. R. Ammons [in June 2008], I thought I’d discuss the textual history of one of his very late poems, “Speaking.” Our genial host here at The Best American Poetry blog, David Lehman, arranged for this poem to be published in The New Yorker a few months after Ammons’s death in February…
Today I’m delighted to share a folio of poems by Dora Malech. Dora Malech is the author of three books of poetry: Shore Ordered Ocean, published by The Waywiser Press in 2009; Say So, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011; and, most recently, Stet, selected by Susan Stewart for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets…
