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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:20 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 5/8/2008)
psalm

I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure

I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament

for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine

so I dully repeat
you hurt me
I hate you

I pull my eyes away from the hills
I will not kill for you
I will never love you again

unless you ask me

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Poet and Critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker's collection The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) is a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her other books of poetry include The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Award and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award; and The Imaginary Lover (1986), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, the Nation, Paris Review and the New Yorker. In November the University of Michigan Press will publish Ostriker's Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. She has written several other critical works, including The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994) and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986).


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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:22 AM
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1. Wow...
:hug:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 04:09 PM
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13. yes
:hi:

RL
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:30 AM
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2. ...
I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:33 AM
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3. Damn, dude, It's 4:30am there.
Why are you awake?

Can I bring you a cup of coffee?

:hi:

RL
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:34 AM
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4. what he won't tell you
is *I* made the coffee. :P


:hug:


Good morning!
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:06 AM
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6. yes please -- a large mug, black.
i'm a poor sleeper.

today it was sinus headache -- other days it's monkey brain.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:11 AM
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7. Monkey Brain I know Well...
:hug:

RL
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:22 AM
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9. i thought you might...
:hug:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:14 AM
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8. For you
anytime. :hug:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:23 AM
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10. thank you ma'am.
:hug:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:49 AM
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11. ...
:*
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:48 AM
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5. Wow! What pain . . .
and only to be willing to repeat.

I will never love you again
unless you ask me

Sheesh . . .

:hi:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 02:32 PM
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12. ...
:hi:

RL
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 04:30 PM
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14. My dear Retro...
Omigod...

Such exquisite pain...

And so exquisitely put...

Thank you!

:hi:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:09 PM
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15. ...
:hi:

RL
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:11 PM
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16. kick
:kick:

RL
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