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Poetic Terrorism

Terrible Eyes: On a Newly Discovered Photograph of Arthur Rimbaud

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I followed deadpan Rivers down and down,
And knew my haulers had let go the ropes.
Whooping redskins took my men as targets
And nailed them nude to technicolour posts.

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, ABRIDGED

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Ben Luzzatto’s THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, ABRIDGED (UDP, 2010) is one of those rare artifacts that transfers its own actual magic—and it is real magic—until the possessed begins to lift a bit toward the sky.

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Sometimes when I happy get

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Sometimes when I happy get I turn on my television set

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Only Boring People Get Bored

March 16, 2010

Sunday evening I encountered this artifact created out of the weekend’s leftovers. I had been showing family around who had never been nyc before. That meant three miserable days of walking in the rain while forcing myself to be cheerful. This stream or river or rainbow or spittle-barf of umbrellas was an affirmation to me [...]

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