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Passage of passages

Of course the point of Passages is that I copied them for a reason. Sometimes it is safe to do so but why let them lie there, dumb museum pieces, listless zoo creatures, captured. I am guilty of that since youth: Laying ideas out and assuming they will spread on their own. It is a [...]

Passages: Sexton

I would like a simple lifeYet all night I am layingPoems away in a long box. It is my immortality box,My lay-away plan,my coffin.         THE AMBITION BIRD Birds turn into plumber’s tools,A sonnet turns into a dirty joke,A wind turns into a tracheotomy,A boat turns into a corpse,A ribbon turns into a noose.         [...]