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The odious date is fast upon us,
The nadir of Hope and Integrity,
The ascendancy of gross Self-interest,
Whereupon the skies will darken,
The heav..
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And so, as I thrash and throe in bed,
Seeking alignment with slumberbum leys,
I whisper my sorrows into my pillow
In lieu of an ally's sentient ear..
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Cheap dates are wonderful, don't you think?
For fifteen dollars apiece we dined
On cheesy, wood-fired, neutral ground.
A milquetoast mouse with a F..
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That they should die together is,
In certain ways, fitting.
The turmoil of leading spotlit lives,
Always under the mandate, Perform! Perform!
Exac..
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Tony Bennett just turned ninety.
What's his secret? Single-mindedness?
While I hop between two worlds--
The trussed-up elegance of self-containment..
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I have been betrayed by my own kind--
No fault of theirs; they are merely obeying
Their bio-imperatives, always chasing
Prime cuts of meat, taking ..
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Once there was sky here
Viewed from deer meadows,
And later, pastures
Crisscrossed with cow paths;
And then: rutted tracks a-roar
With motors and..
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I meet my perfect mate
Every single day
On the train, the bus, the street;
But neither of us knows
Of our mortise-and-tenon fit,
Nor is it like..
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The Rodins are having a cocktail party--
The gang's all here: the Burghers and Balzac,
The headless man and the crouching she;
The Miró-bird..
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Reason has been defeated!
Right when the world requires
Compassion and discretion,
The gee-honks choose their champion:
A chump-in-chief,
A sav..
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