Sather Tower Mystery By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Seems there was this Professor a member of what should be called The Good German Department Must have signed his name to 5,000 petitions in front of ...
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What You Mean I Can’t Irony? By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
A high-yellow lawyer woman told me I ought to go to Europe to “broaden your per spective.” This happened at a black black cocktail party an oil portra ...
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If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
i tore down my thoughts roped in my nightmares remembered a thousand curses made blasphemous vows to demons choked on the blood of hosts ??? ate my ha ...
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The Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Debauched and exhausted faces, Starved and looted brains, faces Like the faces in the senile And insane wards of charity Hospitals. Then as the soiled ...
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To Certain Critics By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
I’ll bear your censure as your praise, For never shall the clan Confine my singing to its ways Beyond the ways of man.
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Boil By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
Boil over—it’s what the nerves do,??? Watch them seethe when stimulated, Murmurs the man at the stove??? To the one at the fridge— Watch that electr ...
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Nude Descending By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds Like prize ribbons for the very best The lover, producer Of another’s pleasure He whom her swollen lips a ...
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Cuba, 1962 By Ai - Giggle Poems
Whoever tastes my woman in his candy, his cake, tastes something sweeter than this sugar cane; it is grief.
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Passing Through By Ai - Giggle Poems
“Earth is the birth of the blues,” sang Yellow Bertha, as she chopped cotton beside Mama Rose. If it wasn’t for hell, we’d all be tapdancing with the ...
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Killing Floor By Ai - Giggle Poems
RUSSIA, 1927 On the day the sienna-skinned man held my shoulders between his spade-shaped hands, easing me down into the azure water of Jordan, I woke ...
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Goodbye to Tolerance By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
Your crumbs choke me, I would not want a drop of your blood in me, it is pumped by weak hearts, perfect pulses that never falter: irresponsive to nigh ...
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Can Being Angry To Help Kids Express Rage Or Does Being Mad To Work Better For Small Frustrations?
Welcome to our feelings club. Today we meet Mia and Leo. They feel strong emotions. Last Tuesday, Mia’s little brother broke her favorite toy. She sho ...
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