Hans Ostrom Poems

Sometimes I'm an individual,
other times a dividual. Often now
I'm a digividual harried
by image-after-image-after
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"I hates those meeces to pieces! "
- Mr. Jinks, cartoon cat

I thought of Aristotle and held
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After trying to reduce
philosophy to mathematics,
Wittgenstein went on
to explore a forest
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Imagine a long story that is more interesting
than it sounds.Its hero, like certain pop
stars, has one name, many egos.Ignore
a probability that the dull parts are merely
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You will have grown accustomed
to a great many things without
understanding them.One day comes
the last day.Your tournament of delusions
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And here we will pass on
the tale of the River Lifffey
Pike. This pike was so big
(so big!)that in order to
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Outside the Norseman Pub in Dublin,

Time heard me thinking of dates
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Out of the orange smoke
of California poppies materialize
thin sage-green scrolls, in which
tiny prophecies of next year’s
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1. The Managed Fund

Crows guarded his retirement plan.
They marched around its perimeter.
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