The title no longer quotes the song, but it’s accurate.
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What happens when we lose count?
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I was looking at the latest call for submissions on the Memoir Mixtapes site, and that led to this…
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The first of two poems written in response to the phrase ascendant emotion, undoubtedly a misreading of the words stenciled on a couple of industrial-sized dumpsters at a construction site I drove past this afternoon…
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Too hot to be serious…
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A two-fer, because I thought of the second one after I’d written another poem.
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I was hoping for more from this one, but I cut things close as it is…
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Bonus round—written during a poetry workshop this afternoon.
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I took my own advice with this one—I was going to add more lines, but then realized it should end where it does…
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