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Carl Phillips
@CPhillipsPoet
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May 16, 2019
Terrific poem today from an always-terrific poet: ⁦
@dlseuss
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Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, coveredin KS lesions demanded that I see the beauty of a mass of chrysanthemums. Look,he demanded. I lied that I could see the beauty there but all I saw was a smearof yellow flowers. I wanted to leave that place. I wanted to leave him to diewithout me. And soon that’s what I did. Even the molecule I allowed myself to feel
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[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]
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Diane Seuss
@dlseuss
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May 16, 2019
Thank you, Carl 🌹
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Rabih Alameddine
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It is stunning, stunning.
3:36 PM · May 16, 2019·Twitter Web Client
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