Poetry

The Totem

The totem stands against the wall, Just askew as the night before. Reminding us of all we knewWhen it crossed the threshold door.  Should you seek to find the meaning thereYou’ll never know, I’ll never tell. For to repeat what’s held insideWould open Dante’s eternal well.  The totem stands against the wall. It looks at me, stares full of…

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Buffets

It's a superficial love buffet. And every true connoisseur knows: buffets suck.

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Cancer

Cancer

If he were dying of cancerI wouldn't care for himtake him to treatment get his suppliesI wouldn't even come to see himOr call to give him my loveOr keep him in my thoughts and prayers. That's cruel, I say.She answers, "No. You didn’t give him cancer."  

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Average Brilliance

Don’t be average at what you’re bad at Be brilliant at what you’re good at

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Milk Toast & Cinnamon

Milk Toast & Cinnamon

The milk toast you think you craveWill never satisfy And she’ll always know that She’s not as smartOr witty or worldly or wiseAnd she just barely gets your jokesBut she giggles when you say “ta da”Because when Phineas is on stageEveryone cheersBut she’s never go backstage when you take off your costume and cryYou don’t like someone…

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Perennial Issues

The perennial issue for sprouts, ugly head every year, refusing to grow bigger or get smaller sprouts lives dies. It’s covered by snow and returns again and again and again this year. I’ll dig it out and throw it in the compost and let somebody else see.

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Self-Love

I can never love you enough for you to love yourself

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Protected: False Companion

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What is the tempo of “It” in Clarice Lispector’s Aqua Viva?

What is the tempo of “It” in Clarice Lispector’s Aqua Viva?

Stafford WoodSt. John’s CollegeLispector PreceptorialDecember 2023 What is the tempo of “It” in Clarice Lispector’s Aqua Viva? Throughout Aqua Viva, Clarice Lispector changes the pace of her writing with punctuation and paragraph marks which can feel to the reader like a lyrical ode, rather than a novel. She writes in a mélange of poetry and…

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Federalist No. 15 as Bleak Picture of Present Circumstances 

Federalist Papers Politics & Society Tutorial Mr. Grenke Fall 2023  To convince the people of New York to vote for the new Constitution, the writers of the Federalist Papers need to explain why the current government formed by the Articles of Confederation are lacking. Hamilton writes Federalist No. 15 with this purpose and uses all manner of mockery…

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