'To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth, ' Myles says. 'To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.'
To be
a poet
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I like what I do.
Mostly it is at other times.
Those times when I sense
I achieve something.
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Once upon a time there lived
two Latin viruses named
Bacterium and Staphylococcus.
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A little too skinny and
the color hue
doesn't match my couch.
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1. Streptococcus
I saw that I missed a call from you
but I am still unable to talk.
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I was made in Kiev yet delivered some
93 hundred kilometers away in Vladivostok
on the coldest of days in January 1940.
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The man is afflicted
with what he nicknamed,
The Howard Hughes syndrome.
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There's this image of a shored skiff
and the man next to it whimpers,
It has nothing to do
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Manna for Thought
His empty moments fill with empty thoughts of
his ultimate uselessness that end in anxiety.
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I read this odd poem full of conundrisms
Such as where reality didn't joke
Was more than a joke in itself.
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