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Sunday, January 4, 2026

"Why Lydia Bought Fred a Bourbon," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Judge Rob...

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  • USA problems
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  • amphibians
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  • anti-authoritarian
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  • bass
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  • belief
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  • bird
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  • black eyes
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  • bluegrass music
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  • bookshelf
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  • bourbon
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  • bowling
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  • breaking up
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  • breath
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  • burial
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  • cell phones
  • cello
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  • chess poem
  • chocolate
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  • academic ritual
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  • aged
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  • agoraphobia poem
  • airline attendants
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  • animals/
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  • apartments
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  • aphoristic
  • apostrophe
  • apostrophe outlawed
  • apparition mysterious woman moon
  • apparitions
  • apple pie in poems
  • apricot
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  • archaeology
  • archery
  • archtop guitar
  • are we there yet?
  • arguments
  • aristocracy
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  • art sewing jewelry women
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  • art installation
  • artist
  • artist's statement
  • artistic woman
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  • ash
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  • assassination-squads
  • asshole
  • assigned poem
  • assisted living
  • associative thinking
  • asteroids
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  • atheism poem
  • atomic weapons
  • attention
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  • aubergine
  • audience
  • audience for poetry
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  • aunt
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  • autobiography
  • autobiography as sin
  • automated
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  • awful
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  • ax
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  • badger
  • badger; Steve Jackson
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  • balcony poem
  • bald eagle
  • ballad stanza
  • banjo
  • banking
  • bankruptcy
  • banks
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  • barefoot
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  • beading
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  • bear poem
  • beautiful women
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  • befuddlement
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  • between
  • between ravine and cemetery
  • biblioholism
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  • bifurcation
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  • big questions
  • billionaires
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  • billy b. music video
  • biology
  • birds; Audobon
  • birth
  • black
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  • black holes
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  • blacksmith
  • blaise cendrars
  • blaming the victim
  • blindness
  • blogging
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  • blogs
  • blond hair
  • blood pressure
  • blossom
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  • blues form
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  • blues video
  • boars
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  • body image
  • bollocks
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  • book ban
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  • book trailer
  • booklover
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  • boring
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  • breakup song
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  • brian wilson
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  • brussels-sprouts
  • budget crisis
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  • bug
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  • business humor entrepreneur
  • busker
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  • cabermet franc
  • cabin in snow
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  • cafe/
  • cafeteria
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  • calamity
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  • campus
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  • canonical
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  • captions
  • captions for cartoons
  • car wash
  • caramel
  • carbon
  • carbon emissions
  • cardamom
  • career of the poem
  • carpet diem
  • cashier
  • castle
  • castles
  • castration
  • catalogues
  • catamaran
  • categorizing poets
  • catfish
  • catharsis
  • cats' baths
  • catterel
  • cattle
  • cause and effect
  • caution
  • cave
  • caves
  • ceiling fan
  • celebrity author
  • celing
  • cement
  • cemetery
  • cemetery sex
  • centipedes
  • ceremonial headdress
  • certain
  • challenge yourself
  • chance
  • chant
  • chant-poem
  • chapbooks
  • charity
  • chateau
  • cheap novel
  • chef
  • chemicals
  • chemistry
  • cherry trees
  • chewing tobacco
  • chicago blues
  • chick-peas
  • childhood hero poem
  • children's literature
  • children's poem
  • chill pop
  • chill-factor
  • chipmunk
  • chirioscuro
  • chivalry
  • chives
  • chlorophyll
  • choclate
  • chocolate Burmese
  • choke pear
  • chores
  • chrysanthemums
  • church
  • churchyard
  • cicada
  • cigar
  • cinquain; Adelaide Crapsey
  • cistern
  • city poem
  • civilization
  • civilized
  • clarksdale
  • class
  • classical music
  • clauses
  • claustrophobia
  • clean water
  • cleaning
  • cliche
  • cliches
  • climate
  • clock
  • close observation
  • closing time
  • cloth
  • clothes
  • clothing
  • clothing optional
  • cloud computing
  • cloud poem
  • cloud storage
  • clouds
  • coal mining
  • coalesce
  • coca-cola
  • cochineal
  • cocktail party
  • cocktail waitress
  • cocoa
  • coffee song
  • cogito
  • cognition
  • coin in fountain
  • cold Spring
  • cold feet
  • cold snap
  • collaboration
  • collateral for loan
  • collect thoughts
  • college begins
  • college freshmen
  • colloquialism
  • colon
  • color
  • comedy
  • comic
  • comic love poem
  • coming of age
  • commissioned poetry
  • common sense
  • communes
  • communication
  • community
  • companion
  • compass
  • composition
  • compost
  • compulsive
  • computer babble
  • computer lingo
  • computer memory
  • computer says nah
  • con artist
  • concept of grace
  • concepts
  • concerning mischief
  • concrete
  • confirmation bias
  • confusion
  • conjugation
  • connectivity
  • conservative exile
  • constancy
  • constructed
  • construction of reality
  • contemporary fiction
  • contemporary poetry
  • content
  • continuation
  • contrition
  • cookbooks
  • cool jazz
  • coon-hound breeds
  • copse
  • corn
  • corned beef hash
  • corner
  • corporate
  • corporate capitalism poem
  • corporate world
  • corporations
  • correlation v. cause
  • correspondence
  • corruption
  • cosmic status
  • cosmology
  • cosmopolitan
  • cosmos
  • counter-culture
  • counter-intuitive
  • counter-invictus
  • counterpoint images
  • country ballad
  • country boogie
  • country songs
  • country&western
  • couplet
  • coupons
  • courageous women
  • court jester
  • cow
  • cow jumped over the moon
  • cow manure
  • cowboy boots
  • cows
  • crampon
  • cranium
  • crap detector
  • crass
  • creation
  • creative witing classes
  • creatures in Fall
  • credit
  • creek poem
  • crime fiction
  • crime literatue
  • crimson
  • critics
  • croquet
  • crossing over
  • cruelty
  • cruise-ships
  • crushes
  • crystal ignatowski
  • cud
  • cuisine
  • cultural diversity
  • culture
  • culture wars
  • currant cake
  • currency
  • curse of wealth
  • cursing
  • customs
  • cutting weeds
  • cutting wood
  • cyberculture
  • cyberpace
  • cyberpunk
  • cymbals
  • cynicism
  • daffodils
  • dams
  • danger
  • dappled things
  • dark
  • dark matter
  • darkness
  • data for fiction
  • date palms
  • date-palms
  • dating
  • dating rituals
  • day
  • day lily
  • daybreak poem
  • days
  • days of the week
  • de la Fontaine
  • dead stars
  • deal
  • death funeral Los Angeles
  • deb richardson
  • debt
  • decay
  • deceit
  • decline
  • deconstructing wisdom
  • definitions
  • delirium
  • delivery truck
  • delta land
  • deluge
  • democracy
  • denominator
  • derelict
  • dermatologist
  • design
  • designed obsolescence
  • detachment
  • details
  • details inside
  • detective novels
  • developers
  • diary farmer
  • dice
  • dictator
  • dig it
  • dig-as-verb
  • digital
  • digital love
  • dinner
  • diplomacy
  • dirt
  • disability
  • disappointment
  • disco
  • disco ghosts
  • dish ran away with the soon
  • dishabile
  • dissertation
  • dissertation poem
  • dissolution
  • distinction
  • diversity and higher education
  • diversity and liberal arts
  • divorce
  • documentary
  • dogma
  • doldrums
  • domestic poem
  • donating clothes
  • donkey
  • donut
  • doom
  • doorjamb
  • doppler effect
  • double
  • doubling
  • doubt
  • dove
  • dove (bird)
  • downtrodden poem
  • dragon
  • dread
  • dreams Davis
  • drinking
  • driving less
  • drollery
  • dropping out
  • drowse
  • drudgery
  • drums
  • drunk
  • drunks
  • dust
  • duty
  • e.e.cummings
  • each
  • eagles
  • ear wax
  • easy love
  • eat
  • eat your heart out
  • echo
  • eclectic
  • eclipse
  • ecology poem
  • economics advertising
  • ecstasy
  • edgy
  • eel grass
  • egg
  • eggplant
  • ekphrastic Arkady Plastov Russian art St. Petersburg
  • election 2012
  • elections
  • electronic chill
  • electronic dance music
  • electronic music
  • electronic transactions
  • elegies
  • elemental image
  • elena
  • eleven
  • elitism
  • elizabeth jennings
  • embarrassment
  • employee
  • emptiness
  • enamored of
  • encyclopedia
  • end of the world
  • endodontics
  • energy
  • engineering
  • english translations of neruda
  • engraving
  • enormous animals
  • entomology
  • entrance
  • entranced
  • entrepreneur
  • environmental fiction
  • epicondylitis
  • epidemic
  • epidermis
  • epigram
  • epistolary
  • equality
  • equation
  • equations
  • equity
  • erotic
  • erstwhile
  • escape
  • espresso
  • essay
  • essays
  • eternity
  • etheridge knight
  • ethnic cleansing
  • etude
  • etymology
  • eucalyptus
  • eucharist
  • eulogy
  • euphemisms
  • evening poem
  • everybody's a critic
  • everyday love
  • exclamation point
  • exculpatory
  • excuses
  • execution poem
  • exhausted possibilities
  • exhibit
  • existence
  • exonerate snake?
  • expectations
  • experience
  • exploration
  • expressionaism
  • extended comparison
  • extracted value
  • exuberance
  • exuberant women
  • eye doctor
  • eyeball poem
  • fact
  • failed America
  • failed poems
  • failed romance
  • failings
  • failure poem
  • fainting
  • fairfield five
  • fairy tale
  • faith and science
  • faith and works
  • fall wind
  • fallability
  • fallibility
  • false dichotomies
  • fame and writing
  • familiar authority
  • famous authors
  • famous novelist
  • famous poets
  • fantastical fiction
  • farm poem
  • farmer
  • farmers
  • farms
  • fascination
  • fascists
  • fast food
  • fat
  • fat man on the radio
  • fate ballad
  • father anger
  • father poem
  • father's death
  • fathers and daughters
  • fathers-and-sons
  • favorite detective novels.
  • fear ocean anxiety
  • fed up
  • federal budget
  • federales
  • fedora
  • feeling good
  • feet
  • feline poem
  • female vocalist
  • feminine power
  • feminist
  • fiddle
  • fiddler
  • film actresses
  • film noir hard-boiled private-eye detective-fiction movies homage
  • fin
  • financial crisis
  • fine
  • fine and dandy
  • fingernail polish
  • fir trees
  • fire climate change Sierra Nevada frogs
  • fire-eater
  • fire/anger
  • fireworks
  • first day of class
  • first drafts
  • first encounter
  • first lines
  • first love
  • first love hippie ballad
  • first man on moon. Apollo 11
  • first meeting
  • first memory
  • first person
  • fish fin
  • fish out of water; Alvin Toffler
  • fish tales
  • fishing legends
  • fission
  • five-paragraph essay
  • flat tire
  • flautist
  • flaws
  • fleeting
  • flies
  • flooded farm
  • flower
  • fluroescent lighting
  • flutist
  • fly
  • folk ballad
  • folk blues
  • food and sex
  • food security
  • food server
  • food shows
  • foolish
  • foolishness
  • foot comfort
  • football (soccer)
  • for cafeteria workers
  • former lovers
  • fossil
  • found photo
  • fractals
  • fractions
  • fragrance
  • framing houses
  • free math textbook
  • free textbooks
  • free-verse ballad
  • free-verse sonnet
  • freight trucks
  • fresh poem
  • friend poem
  • friends
  • frog
  • frog poem
  • frost
  • frozen lettuce
  • fruit
  • fruit brevity gratitude
  • frustration
  • fuck-up
  • fucking
  • fugue
  • fulfillment wordplay moon love dune
  • fulguriator
  • fun
  • funny novel
  • funny poems
  • furze
  • fusion
  • fussy
  • futility
  • future-perfect tense
  • galaxy
  • gallery
  • gangster films
  • gangster movies
  • gangsters
  • garbage disposal
  • garbanzo beans
  • gardens
  • garlic
  • gasoline
  • gay and lesbian marriage
  • generations
  • genetic Eve
  • genetics
  • genetive
  • genius (alleged)
  • genocide
  • genres
  • get it done
  • getting ahead
  • ghazal
  • ghost family
  • gila monster
  • ginko tree
  • giving
  • glaciers
  • glass-blowing
  • globalization
  • gloom
  • gnat
  • go lightly
  • going-out-of-business
  • gold mine
  • golf poem
  • good people
  • good v. evil
  • gorse
  • gospel music influenced
  • gospel-of-wealth (alleged)
  • gothic song
  • government lies
  • graduation
  • graduation poem
  • graduation sonnet
  • grammar school
  • grammar/
  • grandchild
  • grandmother
  • grapes
  • graphic novel
  • grass
  • grasshoppers
  • grave
  • graveyard sex
  • gravity
  • green couch
  • green sky
  • green wine
  • greisen
  • grim reaper
  • grooming
  • grotesqueries
  • groundskeepers
  • group reading audio
  • group-think
  • groups
  • growing hold
  • growing old
  • growth
  • guilt trivial
  • guitar
  • guitarists
  • guitars
  • gull
  • gypsy
  • gyres
  • habeas corpus
  • haiku/
  • haints
  • hajib
  • half-rhyme
  • halina poswiatowska
  • hallucination
  • hallucinogen
  • hammer toe
  • handouts
  • hanging poem
  • happiness
  • harangue
  • hard side of the mountain
  • harlot poem
  • harmonica
  • harp
  • hash
  • hashish
  • hatchet
  • hatching
  • hate speech
  • haunted house
  • haunting
  • haute couture
  • hay
  • headlines misread
  • headquarters
  • headwaters
  • heart
  • heart human population hope
  • heartbeats
  • heat
  • heat domes
  • heat stroke
  • heavy
  • hedge funds
  • helping
  • herbs
  • here and now
  • heredity
  • heritage
  • hermits
  • heroic couplets
  • heron
  • herring
  • hibernation
  • hiccups
  • hidden driveway
  • hierarchy
  • high school
  • high school reunion
  • higher education
  • higher education U.S.
  • highway 49
  • highways
  • hills
  • hinges
  • hip
  • hip hop
  • hippie
  • hippopotamus
  • hipster poem
  • historians
  • historical novel
  • history of printing
  • history/
  • hitchhiking
  • hobo
  • hod-carrying
  • holiday display
  • holiday song
  • holy
  • hombre
  • homeless veterans
  • hometowns
  • homophobia
  • honest
  • honestly
  • honors
  • hook up
  • hooks
  • horned owls
  • hornet
  • hornets
  • horror films
  • horse
  • horse-race
  • hospice
  • hospital
  • hotel
  • hotels
  • house-guests
  • houses
  • housework
  • however
  • html
  • hubris poem
  • hug
  • human history
  • humanities
  • humanities in crisis
  • humble
  • humidity
  • humility poem
  • hunker
  • hunting
  • hunting dogs
  • huntress
  • hymn
  • hyphens
  • hypocrisy
  • iPhone
  • iPhones
  • iambic
  • iambic trochaic
  • ice cream
  • iconic images
  • ideas for teaching poetry
  • idleness
  • if a tree falls in the forest
  • ignorance
  • image apocalypse
  • image restraint
  • imperfection
  • impulses
  • impulsiveness
  • income tax
  • incomplete
  • independent thought
  • indie pop
  • indie rock
  • indigenous
  • indirect poems
  • inebriation
  • inequity
  • inevitable
  • infatuation
  • inferences
  • infinite games
  • information-speak
  • ing
  • injustice
  • innocence
  • insects
  • insiders
  • inspection
  • inspector
  • instagram
  • insurance
  • intentionality
  • interaction
  • interactive
  • interfaith
  • interim
  • interior life
  • interior monologue
  • international relations
  • interruption
  • interview
  • intimidation
  • into
  • into each life some rain must fall
  • intrigue
  • introspection
  • introverted
  • invented forms of poetry
  • inventory
  • invisible book
  • iron
  • island fever
  • isle
  • isopropyl
  • jail
  • jam
  • jazz Sierra Nevada dusk Paris
  • jazz haiku
  • jazz piano
  • jazz soul
  • jeans
  • jets
  • john henry
  • joy
  • judging
  • jungle
  • junk
  • junkyard
  • jury duty
  • karma
  • keep writing
  • kelp
  • keyboard
  • keys desire surrealism
  • kildeer
  • killing
  • kindle poetry
  • kindnss
  • kisses
  • kissing
  • knife
  • knight errant
  • knight poem
  • knock knock
  • knowwhere
  • knuckles
  • labeling
  • labels
  • labyrinth
  • ladder
  • ladders
  • ladybugs
  • lamps
  • land and water
  • landfills
  • landscape
  • landscape and music
  • landscape painting
  • language poetry poetry worldwide writing writers
  • language as inspiration
  • language collage
  • language itself
  • language learning
  • large space
  • larks
  • last page
  • last persons on Earth
  • last words
  • late Spring
  • lately
  • latin beat
  • latin music
  • latitude
  • laughter
  • laurel
  • law court
  • law poem
  • law school
  • lawns
  • lawyers
  • leadership
  • league of quiet persons
  • leaping poetry
  • leaves
  • legacies
  • legality
  • lemon
  • lemonade
  • lending
  • leopard
  • let's
  • lethargy
  • letter
  • letter-writing
  • liberal arts
  • liberal arts colleges
  • librarian
  • libraries
  • library vixen
  • license-renewal
  • lieutenant
  • life cycle
  • life is hard
  • life/
  • lift
  • lighthouse
  • lights
  • lima beans
  • limbaugh
  • linear algebra
  • link
  • linquistic
  • lipstick
  • lipstickallover
  • liquid funk
  • list-poems
  • listing
  • literary agents
  • literary fashion
  • literary theory
  • literature and golf
  • litter
  • little black dress
  • live-music
  • living
  • living alone
  • living on an island
  • living together
  • living with pain
  • lizards
  • llamas
  • local bands
  • locked chairs
  • logging
  • logic
  • loner
  • lonesome valley
  • longtime love
  • looding in Washington
  • looking
  • looking younger
  • losers
  • losing
  • losing teams
  • lost
  • lotos flower
  • louis armstrong
  • louise aragon
  • love affair
  • love and death
  • love to love
  • love/
  • lovers
  • loving
  • loyalty
  • luge
  • lunar eclipse
  • lunch
  • lux
  • lying
  • lynx
  • lyrical
  • lyrics
  • macaroons
  • machine age
  • machines
  • madness
  • mafia
  • magical thinking
  • magma
  • magnetic north
  • magnetic resonant imaging
  • magpies
  • mahalia jackson
  • maidu
  • mail
  • mainstream media
  • majority rule
  • makeup
  • mall
  • mall santa claus
  • malls
  • mambo
  • man in hole
  • man worth having
  • management
  • manatees
  • manipulation
  • manor of speaking
  • mansion
  • mansplaining
  • maple nut ice cream
  • market
  • marry
  • marshmallow
  • martial law
  • marv cactus
  • masculinity
  • mass culture
  • mass media
  • mathematics
  • maturation
  • mayor
  • mazerati
  • mazes
  • measurement
  • media conglomerates
  • medical disclaimers
  • medical poem
  • medical poltiics
  • meditation
  • meds
  • meiosis
  • melanoma
  • melodrama
  • memes
  • memorial
  • memory unit
  • memos
  • men and women
  • mental illness
  • menu
  • mess
  • messy
  • meth
  • metonym
  • mice
  • micro-town
  • microscope
  • middle American
  • middle age
  • middle of poem
  • midnight
  • migration
  • miked up
  • milk
  • millipedes
  • mimesis
  • mind surfing
  • mind-body
  • minestrone soup
  • minimum wage
  • mining
  • minuet
  • miracle
  • mirth
  • misakes
  • mischief
  • misfit
  • missing you
  • mission statements
  • mites
  • mitosis
  • moisture
  • molecular love
  • mollusks
  • monachopsis
  • monkeys
  • monosyllables
  • monsoon
  • monster poem
  • monsters
  • month of May
  • monuments
  • moon poems
  • moonlight
  • mops
  • morass
  • morning star
  • mortality
  • mosey
  • motel
  • mother's death
  • moths
  • motion
  • motorcycles
  • mountain goat
  • mountain misery
  • mouth poem
  • movie theater
  • movies about poets
  • mowing
  • mucous
  • muliticulturalism
  • multiculturalism
  • multiple realization
  • mum is the word
  • murder mystery
  • muse
  • museum
  • music hits
  • muskrat
  • mustard
  • mysticism
  • myth retold
  • n
  • naming
  • nanotechnology
  • napping
  • nappy
  • naps
  • national anthems xenophobia civil war
  • national poetry month coming up
  • natural beauty poem
  • natural rhetoric
  • naturalism
  • naturalist
  • naugahyde
  • nebula
  • negative thoughts
  • neighbors
  • neo-classicism
  • neon
  • net poem
  • neutrinos
  • new age
  • new applications
  • new book of poems
  • new day
  • new novel
  • new stuff
  • newborn
  • newspapers
  • next
  • next big thing
  • nieces
  • nighmare
  • nightmare of history
  • nightsky
  • nihilism
  • no ideas but in things
  • no strings attached
  • no worst
  • nom de meurtrier
  • nonconformity
  • nonet
  • nonlocal effect in physics
  • nonsense
  • nonsense vers
  • nonsense verse
  • northern flicker
  • nostalgia for nothing
  • notebook
  • nothing
  • nothing to say
  • nouns
  • novel of life
  • novel/
  • novocaine
  • now and here
  • nub of the matter
  • nuclear energy
  • nuclear war
  • number twelve
  • numerator
  • numerology
  • nutcracker
  • nutmeg
  • nuts (for bolts)
  • nymphomaniac
  • nymphs
  • oak trees
  • obituary
  • oblique
  • oblivion
  • oboe
  • obsessive
  • obsolete
  • obstacles
  • octopi
  • octopus
  • oddbals
  • odds
  • odors
  • office work
  • official
  • official American Poetry
  • ointment
  • old bird
  • old chestnuts
  • old dog
  • old dudes
  • old highway
  • old hymns
  • old lovers
  • old loves
  • old man
  • old man poem
  • old school
  • old-fashioned
  • older
  • oldest tools
  • oligarchs
  • olive tree
  • on hold
  • one people
  • one planet
  • one species
  • one world
  • one-hit wonder
  • one-page novels
  • onions
  • online-poetry
  • ootball (soccer)
  • open mic
  • open microphone
  • open mind
  • open source publishing
  • opera poem
  • opium
  • oppression
  • opthamologist
  • optimism
  • oranges
  • orchard
  • orchestra
  • ordinary time
  • oregano
  • organic theory of poetry
  • organoids
  • orgy
  • original salesman
  • originality
  • ornaments
  • ornithology
  • orthodontia poem
  • other people
  • ottava rima
  • our talk
  • outer space
  • outsider poem
  • outsiders
  • over-population
  • overheard
  • ox
  • oysters
  • pacific crest trail
  • pages
  • palette
  • palimpsest
  • palomino
  • panopticon
  • pantoum
  • paparazzi
  • paper
  • papryrus
  • parable
  • parade
  • paradise-pie
  • paradox
  • paranoia
  • paranormal
  • paranormal literature
  • parenting
  • parks
  • parody love poem
  • parsley
  • parsonage
  • particle and wave
  • party of one
  • passing on
  • passive voice
  • patriotism
  • patronage
  • patronizers
  • patrons
  • pay it forward
  • peace song
  • peach
  • peach poem
  • pearls
  • peas
  • pebbles
  • pecking order
  • penis
  • penis plague novel
  • penny
  • people
  • perfection
  • performance-enhancing drugs
  • period
  • periwinkles
  • perplexity
  • perseverance
  • persian poets
  • persistence
  • person as book
  • perspective
  • perspiration
  • pessimism
  • petrichor
  • petroglyphs
  • pewter
  • phallic novel
  • phantom
  • phantom blues
  • phases of poetry writing
  • philately
  • philosophy of science
  • philosophy/
  • philsophy
  • phoning the past
  • photo album
  • photo of cat
  • photogtraphy
  • photons blank verse sunlight Spring
  • photos Iran
  • photsynthesis
  • phrase books
  • phrases
  • piano tuning
  • piazza
  • piazza poem
  • picnic
  • pie charts
  • pike
  • pills
  • pilot fish
  • pimps
  • pintarest
  • pipes
  • pissing outside
  • pixel
  • pizza
  • place
  • plains
  • planet
  • plans
  • plastic
  • platinum card
  • platypus
  • play
  • playful poem
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Two more short poems by Lanston Hughes: "Cabaret" and "Disillusion," 1926 Enjoy!
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