Days of 1986 (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised ...
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
How the mountains talked together, Looking down upon the weather, When they heard our friend had planned his Little trip ...
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
I The thick lids of Night closed upon me Alone at the Bill Of the Isle by the Race {1} ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
Waiting our turn before the Court the capital letter, this Honorable Court waiting for our brief short minutes the clock ...
Unembellished facts the heart of the story that is what came first the simplest telling of the story of the ...
random connection to long forgotten facts scraps of thoughts deep within my consciousness triggered by a word, a conversation, music, ...
Sitting, far from still In the hall, waiting, Waiting for word From the court Would my emergency relief Be granted ...
I listen with disbelief at the grim facts our government's choices to abandon justice for a false belief in security ...
Ways to agreement beyond the sparring the minuet of debate of advocacy, of winning findings words of compromise uncontested claims ...
How will the case go How will we ever know It depends On the totality of the circumstances The best ...
Office memorandum Legal writing Predicting Discussion, relevant facts Building blocks Inevitable conclusion Weighing pros and cons Seeing both sides, My ...
Life was simpler Before Offer Acceptance Revocation Time lapse Counter offer Silence as acceptance Acceptance as mirror image of offer ...
Hours per credit Eat my life Sunny days indoors Reading, writing, digesting Old brain Slow reader Applying principle To facts ...
Choice of words and meanings Inference in hiding Expanding rights Beyond facts Setting the stage To go further With the ...
Thus Spake Mary Reilly, "Respondeat Superior, My Ass - Sue 'em All" Sue 'em Sue them all damn it Someone ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
My mind matches this understand land. Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift, Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift ...
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
To spend uncounted years of pain Again, again, and yet again In working out in heart and brain The problem ...
I want to know how Bernard Shaw Likes beefsteak-fairly done, or raw? I want to know what kinds of shoes ...
Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new: a stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weed inside ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
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