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SZYMBORSKA
by Jack Grapes
I came home
Wednesday night from class
and Lori was ensconced
like a caterpillar in a cocoon
on the bed, watching a movie on tv
about crazy people who fall in love
and break china.
"Szymborska died," I said.
She reached for the remote
and shut the tv off.
The room expanded
into that quiet bubble we experience
when we shut off the More...
Mae West
by Edward Field
She comes on drenched in a perfume called Self-Satisfaction from feather boa to silver pumps. She does not need to be loved by you, though she’ll give you credit for good taste. Just because you say you love her she’s not throwing herself at your feet in gratitude. Every other star reveals how worthless she feels by crying when the h More...Fast Gas
by Dorianne Laux
-For Richard Before the days of self service, When you never had to pump your own gas, I was the one who did it for you, the girl who stepped out at the sound of a bell with a blue rag in my hand, my hair pulled back in a straight, unlovely ponytail. This was before automatic shut-offs and vapor seals, and once, while filling a tank, I h More...If I Should Die
by Richard Jones
If I should die this afternoon who will take care of my dog? Who will let her out this evening and walk her twice around the block, letting her stop now and then to sniff an especially delicious turd some other dog has left behind just for her, a gift hidden among leaves and tall grass that she discovers like a little girl at an Easter eg More...Boys
by Mia Sara
Boys at thirteen are pathetic creatures, It’s “Yo, Brah,” this, and “Cool yer balls,” that. As if any mother could produce a thankless squirt from pendulous orbs, just uncap a nifty pen to scribble our own names, splat, onto the timeline, no back breaking spinal code, no torn and swollen fruits, no lost youth weeping from our tit More...The Music of the Spheres
by Billy Collins
The woman on the radio who was lodging the old complaint that her husband never listens to her reminded me of the music of the spheres, that chord of seven notes, one for each of the visible planets, which has been sounding since the beginning of the universe, and which we can never hear, according to Pythagoras because we hear it a More...Can You Spot the 13 Things That Changed?
by Adam Leipzig
One of the biggest mistakes creative people and entrepreneurs make is that they want everything to be perfect. We generally don’t want to reveal our work to the world until it is finished.
Here, we take a different approach. We know Cultural Weekly will never be finished, because we’re always in dialogue with you. So we keep changing.
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