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None Will Come Clean: double dactyl
Higgledy-piggledy, President Blunderbuss spoke through the microphone into the night, his senseless sentences building a fantasy woven from bullshit and wrapped nice and tight. Higgledy-piggledy, our fawning senators there in the gallery gave their applause, praising his policy without much … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, American verse forms, Anthony Hecht, collaboration, destruction, double dactyl, guilt, poetic forms, policy, politics
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Message in a Bottle
If you read this, you take something made of flesh and bone, a piece of time and space and breath not quite a gift, or loan or even money down upon some future equal trade, but more, one part of … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, communication, connection, contribution, isolation
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Music and me (again)
For so many years my life has been defined by the Music I’ve wanted to create. Each time I get disgusted, and lay down the guitar (or bass or piano or whatever primary chording instrument I’m using at the time), … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged collaboration, composition, music, personal history, songwriting
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