My Most Recent Position Paper

“the tongues of my fingers ask to be words against your skin”

Oct 7 • 

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September 2025

Love Poem

“We wake and kiss and eat and kiss and talk and kiss and walk”

Sep 29 • 

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Calling Him Back from Layoff

how are you doing

Sep 19 • 

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August 2025

The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV)

“The soft rain of the talking all around us was a cocoon I wanted to live inside.”

Aug 4 • 

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The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXXVII)

“the world is a cup the sun fills every day”

Aug 2 • 

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July 2025

In Michael Robins's class minus one

“They're in a circle and the river says, I've never understood round things, why would leaving come back / to itself?”

Jul 31 • 

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Love Poem

“it’s as if there’s a menu & she is the menu & everything is allowed”

Jul 8 • 

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This is this

“It’s funny how often we lie to ourselves.”

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

Sigh

The amazing human brain is a gun pointed at itself.

Jun 27 • 

Karan Kapoor

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Sincere

“I don’t know what poetry is, but a poem’s an obituary trying to be a prayer.”

Jun 24 • 

Karan Kapoor

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Dress for Success

“they'd lost themselves to being lost / in wanting to be what they're not: music.”

Jun 17 • 

Karan Kapoor

11

Admission is free

“Do you ever feel the only way to be happy is to be someone else?”

Jun 4 • 

Karan Kapoor

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