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Dylan Bosworth's avatar

They get better and better, but each perfect in their distinct way. Definition of SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS

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Pablo Báez's avatar

I had fun with this one, bro!

Hungry…

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Tom Schecter's avatar

This is so fucking cool.

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

So, as some of the poets here may know, I often curse at a poem, the same way I do when I taste something from a chef that is good as fuck but I'm mad at it because it is good as fuck. It's a compliment. I must've cursed like six goddamn times reading this. Well done sir

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Elizabeth Lamont's avatar

I'm soul-blown! Come to My Notes!

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Zivah Avraham's avatar

I had to read this again (and again) because the funereal dirge quality wouldn’t leave me alone. It felt like where I live, in the depths of winter, surrounded by the remnants of Roman, medieval and Victorian lead and silver mines. I hear the footsteps, the threadbare, the hopeless. I feel them all in this poem.

Where have you come from, Pablo? You’re an old soul.

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Elizabeth Lamont's avatar

Genuine old-school capacity to fuse grief, threadbare poverty, rage, the fatedness of it, the waste. It's stunning. I'm still letting it do its work on me.

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