Today's poem: Oedipal Strivings by Frederick Seidel
divasofverse.com/2019/06/oedipa
Conversation
I love Seidel and kind of hate myself for loving him
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Why? Is there something I don't know?
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Oh, no! It's just that some of his poems seem cruel, or misanthropic, or a teensy bit depraved, and I find them so refreshing. If Mary Oliver had an opposite, it would be Seidel.
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Yes, I see. I like him because he's sui generis, and because he's very good!

