The art of living isn’t hard to muster:
Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Marilyn Hacker, philosophy, poems referencing poems, villanelle
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Some People 1
some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Charles Bukowski, dark humor, social commentary, unsettling