dream husband

dream husband

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There was no money, but, Jesus, we had fun.
Dorothy Parker, Paris Review Interview (issue 13, 1956)
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WHEN YOU’RE OLD AND LONELY: THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

A classic.

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Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don’t know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can’t find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

“The Secret” by Denise Levertov
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Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
“Watermelons” by Charles Simic
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Oh, atlas
look
you forgot my island.
“Oh, Atlas” by Joshua Beckman
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