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The Bagel by David Ignatow | Poems Rethabile Likes The Bagel by David Ignatow I stopped to pick up the bagel rolling away in the wind, annoyed with myself for having dropped it as if it were a portent. Faster and faster it rolled, with me running after it bent low, gritting my teeth, and I found myself doubled over and rolling down the street head over heels, one complete somersault after another like a bagel and strangely happy with myself. Poet: @DavidIgnatow Online: @lfwriting Book(s): @ThriftBooks ...

Wristwatch by Ron Padgett | Poems Rethabile Likes Wristwatch by Ron Padgett I've just written six or seven short poems in about half an hour, in a cabin on a pond with raindrops. Maybe I should just sit here for a while, let some time pass so my wife will think I've been working hard. See that? Some time just went past but so quietly you might have missed it. Then it morphed into the sky. Look, another one! It came out of my wristwatch and slipped away. P...

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up by Bernadette Mayer | Poems Rethabile Likes [Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up by Bernadette Mayer You jerk you didn't call me up I haven't seen you in so long You probably have a fucking tan & besides that instead of making love tonight You're drinking your parents to the airport I'm through with you bourgeois boys All you ever do is go back to ancestral comforts Only money can get—even Catullus was rich but Nowadays you guys settle for a couch By a soporific color cable t.v. set Instead of any arc of love, no wonder The G.I. Joe team blows it ever...