...? Existence is nothing more than experience divided by endurance. If it can be sliced, it can be survived. Think of me as the broken you —​ the part of you you know needs more than a splint and a bandage. I am the fracture,        the busted bone you refuse to lose. I am that rhyme...

...Amorak Huey © 2014 Amorak Huey 2014 Amorak Huey The Governor in Love We snorkel in your depths, we lace like coral —​ we wait for the paperback. Your arm muscles rope & rhyme, unsolved collision of flesh. Seagulls soundtrack our imagination, this beach...

...        who aim to write it how it should be. We drink red wine. 
 We talk bitches and b-rhymes while I learn the speech of the fearless. I fear the reach of his filthy hand        as these girls dance until Sir Elton skips, chant their manuscripts out half-cracked...

... and ignoring the needs of the normal children. [Reflections: This is only Rachel s second year as a teacher. Troubled children threatened me too when I started out.] September 29, book circle: I read The Hungry Caterpillar who always wants more and ask the children for words that rhyme with more. Gina says...

..., the rhyme scheme, the sound of each word. In order to write poetry, you said to observe the world the smell of a street, the feel of a book, the sound of people talking. Damn it if I don t deserve an A. I m not sure you ll have a chance to read this. An hour ago, I told Angela s dad everything I just told...

... skidowed elbow greasers money wrench nuts and bolts (Mullen 1995: 9) Gauvin 97 Like all the poems in her collection, Mullen s déjà voodoo queens is organized into four quatrains with alternating uses of assonance and rhyming end-lines. However, within the dimensions of this traditional poetic arrangement...

... the font, when the content recedes and the interface comes forward, when we borrow literacies learned from typewriter poetics, we see that covfefe makes use of a series of identical or visually rhyming characters and that it, too, has its own internal interplay of the ocular and the aural. In the sans...

... older and I ve never known a scenario in which the opposition is truly between choice and life who would choose what we have to live who would live what we have to choose in Dutch the word vagina rhymes with page, pagina in English the word womb rhymes with the word tomb or both, read slant, with room...

... that first entry, I’d penciled down the words my father said that first night after he’d told me. He stroked my hair while I cried into his shirt. “Mathematically speaking, there’s no rhyme or reason to any of it, Cameron. But your mother loved the hell out of us.” There was no trial for my...

... edited, a work which I found original and meaningful. Finally, there was his work on the body, especially his own body as in L’intrus, which naturally rhymed with the dialectic of communitas/ immunitas that I was developing. Things changed slightly after that, first...

... of living in the wake of slavery. They trans- form the place of Brown s death the street, Canfield Drive, in which his body lay for hours into the material and symbolic medium of prayer in dissent. These riots are the uncommons, a break with public and private complacency, a slant rhyme between the singular...

... to advance in the now fresh & sprouting world must take on some musical sense. Literally, the grace & hesitation of modal descent, the rhyme unbearable, the coming down through the prepared delay and once again we are there, beholding the complete elation of our end. (70...

... a nursery rhyme and, strangely, I think about my poodle pup, Mia, who was one of five in a statistically improbable litter of all females. At home, my husband and I watch Mia sleep, her eyelids fluttering, paws twitching, her tail moving in quick little wags. She s dreaming, I tell my husband. Chasing...

... a metaphor, or smiling over a meaning entirely produced by the magic of rhyme, you are not paying attention to what is going on in the world. The question I would like to ask is whether not paying attention to it automatically keeps you there It is a grandiose fantasy...

... greasy —​but she wipes it clean, so that she leaves no residue on her cup. Chaucer’s brilliant enjambment (“ther was no ferthing sene / Of grece”) brings the reader up short with its juxtaposition of the rhyme words “clene” and “sene” with the vivid, unpleasant reality of grease. Chaucer uses...

... Satellite,” Cecilia Vicuña. Diverseworks, Houston, 1999 about history and the present, or how we derive (or have forgotten to derive) meaning from events. The etymological search of the pre- cario’s heterogeneity is an adivinanza, which refers to both a proph- ecy and a riddle (often rhymed...

... the poem’s demanding rhyme scheme (1992, 161); see also his riff on the semantics of “form,” beginning with his announce- ment at the beginning of the February 3 seminar that it would be devoted to defining a “forme exemplaire” —​that of courtly love —​a “forme exemplaire de sublimation très proche de...

... this potential through “versification,” the defining feature of which is “rhyme.” Interestingly, in light of your earlier question about poetry, I also devote two chapters of The Subject of Semiotics —​which I wrote when I was still teaching Renaissance literature —​to similarity, and I account...

... “This is the gait of the poet who roams the city in search of rhyme-booty; it must also be the gait of the ragpicker who stops on his path every few moments to pick up the refuse he encoun- ters” (Benjamin 1973, 80). A figure of modernity, the ragpicker is also a residual gleaner who, together with Trotsky’s...

.... J. . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin . ———. 1974 . The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs . Translated by Kaufmann Walter . New York : Vintage . ———. 1983 . “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” In Untimely Meditations . Translated...