It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Night Walk by Franz Wright
Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz
The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín
Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday
Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten
acknowledgments by Danez Smith
Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker
San Francisco by Richard Brautigan
How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell
You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton
On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton
All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto
It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz
In Time by W.S. Merwin
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib
Dear Life by Maya C. Popa
I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass
To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón
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I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America
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Impasse
by Richard Brautigan
I talked a good hello
but she talked an even
better good-bye.
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My Concern for Your Aloe Vera Plant
Dedicated to Richard Brautigan
One of its leaves,
turned a little yellow,
lies on the ground
On the tiled floor
On the red-tiled floor
On the floor tiled with coarse red-brown tiles
One should always be as precise as possible,
to avoid misunderstandings as much as possible
and to convey the best possible picture of the facts
(Cont.)
Yesterday you had two of these leaves in your hand
when you…
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Your Catfish Friend
If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful
here by this pond. I wish
somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them."
—Richard Brautigan (1989)
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Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Richard Brautigan, Your Catfish Friend
The Mountain Goats, Hair Match
Natalie Young, Notes on Earth Life
From psychicdonuts uquiz, ‘what will you do this summer?’
JxsmineSky, Malnutrition
Disco Elysium (2019), created by Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov
Daniel Lavery, Dirtbag Catallus
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[my back pages]
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“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.
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Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.”
—Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
Boo, Forever from The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968
[alive on all channels]
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Werewolf, CocoRosie / A Boat, Richard Brautigan
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please plant this book by richard brautigan, printed on seed packets for California native flowers, calendula, carrots, lettuce, sweet alyssum royal carpet, squash, Shasta daisy and parsley. printed and distributed by the communication company, grassroots radical street press of the SF Diggers
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Deer Tracks
by Richard Brautigan
Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently like deer tracks
in freshly fallen snow beside the one
you love. That’s all.
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"I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone" by Richard Brautigan (via khanombang
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what you were
will not happen again.
Charles Bukowski, On Love: For Jane
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