Sparrow
In addition to having prehensile toes, Sparrow is the author of Yes, You ARE
a Revolutionary! and Republican Like Me (Soft Skull Press). Also, he writes Quarter to Three, a monthly feature for Chronogram (www.chronogram.com). He is a proponent of the new American poetics.
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EXPERIMENT #1
Read one poem a night
for two weeks.
Then read no poems
for two weeks.
12 APOSTLE
I prefer to say "12 apostle"
rather than "12 apostles."
JANE CAMPION
"How I love the name
Jane Campion," I murmured.
"'Run, Jane Campion!
'Awake, Jane Campion!'"
JANE CAMPION II
"If only her husband
were named Apollo:
Apollo and Jane Campion."
UNTITLED
Bumper sticker: I'M A GNOSTIC, DAMMIT!
DEFINITION
zebraey - resembling a zebra
IDEA FOR A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
A universe exactly like ours except there is no word "legacy."
IDEA FOR A MOVIE TRAILER
A universe exactly like ours except there is no "one man alone."
A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE CIVIL WAR
The Paranoid
South lost to
Victorious
Arsonists.
FREUD IS...
Freud is dead.
Buddha and Einstein -- dead.
The only people left are garage mechanics, soldiers, ambassadors.
Who will lead us?
FOUR QUARTERS
Four quarters do not
equal a dollar.
They equal 99.99 cents.
.01 cent is missing.
Everyone feels this absence
deep inside.
HEARD IN A DREAM
"Cloak the har."
FEAR OF MOON
I fear the moon
and its announcements
each day.
HEARD IN A DREAM
"No more Mr. New."
HEARD IN A DREAM
"Where's my pollen? You stole my pollen!"
DEFINITION
Lincolnsphere - psychic sphere containing all opinions and theories about Abraham Lincoln