"Irony," by Amy Lowell

"Weak Days," by Hans Ostrom

Sunday was a damned done-day,
if you ask me, and you didn't.
Monday was a numb-day.
Wednesday? What a clot
of consonants. That mid-
dumb-day did not
find me inconsolable.
But still. Thursday,
a blur's day. Tues,
the Blues, an out-of-
order cruise. Fly-Day
night, I saw old pals
getting buzzed and sat
there in a corner like
a spider that's lost
its appetite. Saturday
always seems to want
to perform like
an Ur-Day. Academics
used to like to add
Ur to words. They're
always doing shit like that.
Also,there's always a missing
day in every week. It's that
one on which we do
exactly what we're
supposed to do.

"Venus Transiens," by Amy Lowell

"Houses," by F.S. Flint

"God Moves in a Mysterious Way," by William Cowper

"A Golden Day," by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Amalfi," by Richard Aldington

"The Painter," by Gwendolyn Bennett

from "Quatrains"

"Lucretia Borgia's Hair," by Walter Savage Landor

"Red May," by A. Mary F. Robinson

from an anthology edited by Sara Teasdale, published in 1917.

"Preparedness," by Edwin Markham

"The Lotos Flower," by Heinrich Heine

“On Dürer’s Melancolia," by William Watson

"A Well, and the Cherry Trees, Swaying," by Alexey Tolstoy

Alexey Tolstoy's father was a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy.

"Rain Music," by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

"In the Desert," by Stephen Crane

"How to Be a Cat," by Hans Ostrom

"The Brevity of Life," by Ernest Dowson

"Crow Installation," by Hans Ostrom

A crow had crapped
on a gray sidewalk
this morning:

a big blopping dollop
of liquid in a heart-shape.

A gray-green dominated
this installation
of public art, with

undertones of blue-black
and a swirl of white:
fantastic! The consistency
was that of diluted
acrylic paint.


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"Look Younger With Natural Ingredients," by Hans Ostrom

Look younger
with natural ingredients. Look
natural with younger
ingredients. Eliminate

bags and wrinkles. Bag
those wrinkles in
wrinkled bags. Yeah,
you're going to look

younger, according
to yourself. To others,
you'll look the age
you are; still.

People you're
attracted to won't
be attracted to you:
nothing new.

But you'll feel younger.
Briefly. Maybe. Give it a try!
Four easy payments. Shipping
and handling not included.

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