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Ugandan Social Media Tax Duel
Late of Cancer, bill passed
Not to envy by that
Could it carry out its authorities
Multitudes as they wondered as though a bill can be opposed!
.....
Jova Petr
Late of Cancer, bill passed
Not to envy by that
Could it carry out its authorities
Multitudes as they wondered as though a bill can be opposed!
.....
Jova Petr
Cúirt An Mhean-oíche (the Midnight Court)
Cuid a hAon: An Brollach
Siúlann an file amach leis féin maidin shamhraidh agus
castar spéirbhean uafásach air. Sracann sí ina diaidh é tríd
.....
Brian Merriman
Cuid a hAon: An Brollach
Siúlann an file amach leis féin maidin shamhraidh agus
castar spéirbhean uafásach air. Sracann sí ina diaidh é tríd
.....
Brian Merriman
Windsor Forest
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,
At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,
Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!
Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.
.....
Alexander Pope
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,
At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,
Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!
Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.
.....
Alexander Pope
Cancer Prayer
Dear Lord,
Please flood her nerves with sedatives
and keep her strong enough to crack a smile
so disbelieving friends and relatives
.....
Am Juster
Dear Lord,
Please flood her nerves with sedatives
and keep her strong enough to crack a smile
so disbelieving friends and relatives
.....
Am Juster
O Lovely Lie
I told a truth, a tragic truth
That tore the sullen sky;
A million shuddered at my sooth
And anarchist was I.
.....
Robert Service
I told a truth, a tragic truth
That tore the sullen sky;
A million shuddered at my sooth
And anarchist was I.
.....
Robert Service
Bruadar And Smith And Glinn
Bruadar and Smith and Glinn,
Amen, dear God, I pray,
May they lie low in waves of woe,
And tortures slow each day!
.....
Douglas Hyde
Bruadar and Smith and Glinn,
Amen, dear God, I pray,
May they lie low in waves of woe,
And tortures slow each day!
.....
Douglas Hyde
To Pablo Neruda
Again & again
I have read your books
without ever wishing to know you.
.....
Erica Jong
Again & again
I have read your books
without ever wishing to know you.
.....
Erica Jong
Her My Body
about the left nipple
of the woman in the bathroom.
She is drying her hair, the woman
.....
Bob Hicok
about the left nipple
of the woman in the bathroom.
She is drying her hair, the woman
.....
Bob Hicok
Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling )
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
.....
Evie Shockley
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
.....
Evie Shockley
The Shoelace
a woman, a
tire thatâ??s flat, a
disease, a
desire: fears in front of you,
.....
Charles Bukowski
a woman, a
tire thatâ??s flat, a
disease, a
desire: fears in front of you,
.....
Charles Bukowski
Don Juan: Canto The Ninth
Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame
Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;
France could not even conquer your great name,
But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase-
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George Gordon Byron
Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame
Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;
France could not even conquer your great name,
But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase-
.....
George Gordon Byron
Bess
Ours are the streets where Bess first met her
cancer. She went to work every day past the
secure houses. At her job in the library
she arranged better and better flowers, and when
.....
William Stafford
Ours are the streets where Bess first met her
cancer. She went to work every day past the
secure houses. At her job in the library
she arranged better and better flowers, and when
.....
William Stafford
Dire Cure
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic
Oath begins, but before she might enjoy
such balm, the docs had to harm her tumor.
It was large, rare, and so anomalous
.....
William Matthews
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic
Oath begins, but before she might enjoy
such balm, the docs had to harm her tumor.
It was large, rare, and so anomalous
.....
William Matthews
Cancer Cells
'Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die' - nurse, Royal Marsden hospital
They have forgotten how to die
And so extend their killing life.
.....
Harold Pinter
'Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die' - nurse, Royal Marsden hospital
They have forgotten how to die
And so extend their killing life.
.....
Harold Pinter
Autobiography (polish It Like A Piece Of Silver)
I am standing in the cemetery at Byrds, Texas.
What did Judy say? 'God-forsaken is beautiful, too.'
A very old man who has cancer on his face and takes
care of the cemetery, is raking a grave in such a
.....
Richard Brautigan
I am standing in the cemetery at Byrds, Texas.
What did Judy say? 'God-forsaken is beautiful, too.'
A very old man who has cancer on his face and takes
care of the cemetery, is raking a grave in such a
.....
Richard Brautigan
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto Iv
Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,
Still on strange visionary land I stray.
Now scenes crowd thick! now indistinct appear!
Swift glide the months, and turn the varying year!
.....
Richard Savage
Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,
Still on strange visionary land I stray.
Now scenes crowd thick! now indistinct appear!
Swift glide the months, and turn the varying year!
.....
Richard Savage
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
.....
Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
.....
Wilfred Owen
The House Of Dust - Part Iii - Complete
I
As evening falls,
And the yellow lights leap one by one
.....
Conrad Potter Aiken
I
As evening falls,
And the yellow lights leap one by one
.....
Conrad Potter Aiken
My Cancer Cure
“A year to live,” the Doctor said;
“There is no cure,” and shook his head.
Ah me! I felt as good as dead.
Yet quite resigned to fate was I,
.....
Robert Service
“A year to live,” the Doctor said;
“There is no cure,” and shook his head.
Ah me! I felt as good as dead.
Yet quite resigned to fate was I,
.....
Robert Service
My Rival
If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
For they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
.....
Robert Service
If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
For they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
.....
Robert Service
The Key Of The Street
“Miss Rosemary,” I dourly said,
“Our balance verges on the red,
We must cut down our overhead.
One of the staff will have to go.
.....
Robert Service
“Miss Rosemary,” I dourly said,
“Our balance verges on the red,
We must cut down our overhead.
One of the staff will have to go.
.....
Robert Service
Metamorphoses: Book 14
Now Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'er
The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.
Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coast
Of flaming Aetna, to his sight are lost:
.....
Ovid
Now Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'er
The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.
Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coast
Of flaming Aetna, to his sight are lost:
.....
Ovid
Henry Phipps
I was the Sunday school superintendent,
The dummy president of the wagon works
And the canning factory,
Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the banking clique;
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
I was the Sunday school superintendent,
The dummy president of the wagon works
And the canning factory,
Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the banking clique;
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
Indignation Jones
You would not believe, would you
That I came from good Welsh stock?
That I was purer blooded than the white trash here?
And of more direct lineage than the
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
You would not believe, would you
That I came from good Welsh stock?
That I was purer blooded than the white trash here?
And of more direct lineage than the
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees
The soft blue starlight through the one small window,
The moon above black trees, and clouds, and Venus,-
And turns to write . . . The clock, behind ticks softly.
.....
Conrad Aiken
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees
The soft blue starlight through the one small window,
The moon above black trees, and clouds, and Venus,-
And turns to write . . . The clock, behind ticks softly.
.....
Conrad Aiken
A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my magazine, of earthly store,
If two be one, as surely thou and I,
How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lie?
.....
Anne Bradstreet
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my magazine, of earthly store,
If two be one, as surely thou and I,
How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lie?
.....
Anne Bradstreet
Life's Undercurrent
Within the precincts of a hospital,
I wandered in a sympathetic mood;
Where face to face with wormwood and with gall,
With wrecks of pain and stern vicissitude,
.....
Alfred Castner King
Within the precincts of a hospital,
I wandered in a sympathetic mood;
Where face to face with wormwood and with gall,
With wrecks of pain and stern vicissitude,
.....
Alfred Castner King
Rome Revisited
O sovereign Rome, still mistress of the heart,
As of the world in thy majestic prime,
Grand in thy ruins, peerless in thine art,
Rich in the memories of a past sublime,
.....
John L. Stoddard
O sovereign Rome, still mistress of the heart,
As of the world in thy majestic prime,
Grand in thy ruins, peerless in thine art,
Rich in the memories of a past sublime,
.....
John L. Stoddard
The Mantra-yoga
I
How should I seek to make a song for thee
When all my music is to moan thy name?
.....
Aleister Crowley
I
How should I seek to make a song for thee
When all my music is to moan thy name?
.....
Aleister Crowley
The Key Of The Street
"Miss Rosemary," I dourly said,
"Our balance verges on the red,
We must cut down our overhead.
One of the staff will have to go.
.....
Robert William Service
"Miss Rosemary," I dourly said,
"Our balance verges on the red,
We must cut down our overhead.
One of the staff will have to go.
.....
Robert William Service
O Lovely Lie
I told a truth, a tragic truth
That tore the sullen sky;
A million shuddered at my sooth
And anarchist was I.
.....
Robert William Service
I told a truth, a tragic truth
That tore the sullen sky;
A million shuddered at my sooth
And anarchist was I.
.....
Robert William Service
As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free
AS a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America,
Such be the recitative I'd bring to-day for thee.
.....
Walt Whitman
AS a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America,
Such be the recitative I'd bring to-day for thee.
.....
Walt Whitman
Dawn In Summer
When now no more th' alternate twins are fired,
And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze,
Short is the doubtful empire of the Night;
And soon, observant of approaching Day,
.....
James Thomson
When now no more th' alternate twins are fired,
And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze,
Short is the doubtful empire of the Night;
And soon, observant of approaching Day,
.....
James Thomson
Eclogue X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
.....
Virgil
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
.....
Virgil
My Cancer Cure
"A year to live," the Doctor said;
"There is no cure," and shook his head.
Ah me! I felt as good as dead.
Yet quite resigned to fate was I,
.....
Robert William Service
"A year to live," the Doctor said;
"There is no cure," and shook his head.
Ah me! I felt as good as dead.
Yet quite resigned to fate was I,
.....
Robert William Service
When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer
When once the twilight locks no longer
Locked in the long worm of my finger
Nor damned the sea that sped about my fist,
The mouth of time sucked, like a sponge,
.....
Dylan Thomas
When once the twilight locks no longer
Locked in the long worm of my finger
Nor damned the sea that sped about my fist,
The mouth of time sucked, like a sponge,
.....
Dylan Thomas
Altarwise By Owl-light
y graveward with his furies;
Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam,
And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies,
The atlas-eater with a jaw for news,
.....
Dylan Thomas
y graveward with his furies;
Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam,
And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies,
The atlas-eater with a jaw for news,
.....
Dylan Thomas
The Four Seasons Of The Year.
Spring.
Another four I've left yet to bring on,
Of four times four the last Quaternion,
The Winter, Summer, Autumn & the Spring,
.....
Anne Bradstreet
Spring.
Another four I've left yet to bring on,
Of four times four the last Quaternion,
The Winter, Summer, Autumn & the Spring,
.....
Anne Bradstreet
Bomb
niverse Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone
.....
Gregory Corso
niverse Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone
.....
Gregory Corso
From Love's First Fever To Her Plague
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second
And to the hollow minute of the womb,
From the unfolding to the scissored caul,
The time for breast and the green apron age
.....
Dylan Thomas
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second
And to the hollow minute of the womb,
From the unfolding to the scissored caul,
The time for breast and the green apron age
.....
Dylan Thomas
Metamorphoses: Book The Fourteenth
NOW Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'er
The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.
Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coast
Of flaming Aetna, to his sight are lost:
.....
Ovid
NOW Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'er
The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.
Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coast
Of flaming Aetna, to his sight are lost:
.....
Ovid
A Letter To Her Husband
Absent upon Public Employment
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my magazine, of earthly store,
.....
Anne Bradstreet
Absent upon Public Employment
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my magazine, of earthly store,
.....
Anne Bradstreet
My Rival
If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
For they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
.....
Robert William Service
If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
For they were just like flint and steel
To strike the spark of woe and weal;
.....
Robert William Service
St. Winefred's Well
ACT I. SC. I
Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.
.....
Gerard Manley Hopkins
ACT I. SC. I
Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.
.....
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Eclogue 10: Gallus
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
.....
Publius Vergilius Maro
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
.....
Publius Vergilius Maro
Kaddish, Part I
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on
the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking,
talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues
.....
Allen Ginsberg
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on
the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking,
talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues
.....
Allen Ginsberg