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SIX POEMS

SIX POEMS EASY AS THAT Now that I’m about to die, no kidding, run of the mill, no escaping it, I’m reflecting on what I haven’t learned, what needs to get done (not that much interests me right now): and how much must yet be borne: sudden satori for example (ach) after sticking it out for so long struggling on and on and (halfheartedly) on. Nothing comes in the mail, the internet is dead, not a wisp of the boundless plenty. Brief, the season of Death. Sudden. A long defile Common Knowledge 15:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2009-022 © 2009 by Duke University Press then a narrow inlet. Conventional wisdom, primary colors, counting long enough, one to ten, a spare elemental series: no effort to speak of, truth be told (no resistance, nothing one can do), for passing to the other barrio. From barrio: ovarian (barrier) — easy to tell where these puns are heading: Death tells nothing, no one else is telling, there’s nothing to be told. It’s wearisome to waste your time on fantasies of an afterlife when there’s so much still waiting to be read. Don’t squander your energy, the hell with priests and philosophers, shysters and quacks who make http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

SIX POEMS

Kozer, Jose
Common Knowledge , Volume 15 (3) – Oct 1, 2009
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EASY AS THAT Now that I’m about to die, no kidding, run of the mill, no escaping it, I’m reflecting on what I haven’t learned, what needs to get done (not that much interests me right now): and how much must yet be borne: sudden satori for example (ach) after sticking it out for so long struggling on and on and (halfheartedly) on. Nothing comes in the mail, the internet is dead, not a wisp of the boundless plenty. Brief, the season of Death. Sudden. A long defile Common Knowledge 15:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2009-022 © 2009 by Duke University Press then a narrow inlet. Conventional wisdom, primary colors, counting long enough, one to ten, a spare elemental series: no effort to speak of, truth be told (no resistance, nothing one can do), for passing to the other barrio. From barrio: ovarian (barrier) — easy to tell where these puns are heading: Death tells nothing, no one else is telling, there’s nothing to be told. It’s wearisome to waste your time on fantasies of an afterlife when there’s so much still waiting to be read. Don’t squander your energy, the hell with priests and philosophers, shysters and quacks who make

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Published: Oct 1, 2009

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