INVISIBLE ARMIES ~

Liveright, 2013

JUDGE ~

"On Thursday, a man who has been accused of sexual misconduct by two women, and who has been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court by a President accused of sexual misconduct by twenty women, will attempt to persuade eleven Republican men that he deserves that position—a position that would give him the authority to help decide, among other things, what options are available to women if they get pregnant after being sexually assaulted. What more damning demonstration of the solidification of male entitlement could we possibly get?"

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Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker

R E A D      A L L

A.R. AMMONS ~

Weathering




A day without rain is like

a day without sunshine








Success Story





I never got on good

relations with the world



first I had nothing

the world wanted



then the world had

nothing I wanted








Substantial Planes




It doesn't

matter    



to me

if



poems mean

nothing:



there's no

floor



to the

universe



and yet

one



walks the

floor.








Small Song





The reeds give

way to the



wind and give

the wind away








Pebble's Story




Wearing away 

wears    



wearing

away away








The Scour




It was so windy

last night the snow

got down nowhere

except up against something.








Reading




It's nice

after dinner

to walk down to

the beach



and find

the biggest

thing on earth

relatively calm.







Camels




I like nonliterary,

uneducated people,

beach riffraff:

they are so aloof and

unengageable: you

can rope them with

no interest of your own.







Stills





I have nowhere

to go and



nowhere to go



when I get

back from there






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A. R. Ammons
The Really Short Poems
Norton 1990