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The age of opportunity As time passes As when the fisher, lost in the wine-dark wine Be or not be to beweep Beauty has teeth, teeth beauty; farewell, wits Better safe than storied Blasting through the sky The boy flew off the burning deck Bring me my prose of turning cold Busy young fool, unruly Donne By my so potent art, as full as opera Confusion is only natural Dance, dance, Jesus dance Death, be not sad, though some have called thee don't be a slave Double, double, cosmic bubble The ear--the plug--the fate of a churning nation-- The earth was bashed together from rocks First Witch For all the bird's misgiving From the arc of the ankle The glorious backlit marmalade slides down the sky The haiku warned me Hang your head up on the wall Higgledy piggledy Humpty Dumpty lies in state I hope you did not miss the beautiful moon I pulled on a loose thread of history I saw a goth girl on the train one night I set the goals that make the whole world run I will go down to DC again, to the crowded Mall and the Pool If ever the ships come to break our clan If I had my druthers, I would live importing lark song In '79, in Davis, California The Internet loads mysterious codes Itsy, Bitsy, Tiny and Few Just slept when I awoke Lady Liberty came to me last night Let the firebrand awake! Look how the rosy-fingered dawn Lunch comes in at the mouth My heart aches, and the blackest hellfire fiend nothing depends Now, what does a seahorse use for a rocking chair? O Generation of the entirely snug Odysseus dodged the sirens. He dared not risk Oh say, can you see, by the light's early dawn On August 21, 1969, a spacecraft arrived in Earth orbit Ours is not to reason why Over the hills and over The placing of blame is a difficult matter Put out your eyes as if they were a fire Red-winged blackbirds are all we know The roses are dead Roses are rose and violets are violet The rumpled sun wakes up to survey the earth Seinfeld and Roseanne Barr A Shout of Herbal Essence The sink is full tonight Sodium light is the ship's sky Some say the world will end in trash ,somewhere i could never travel Speak now, or forever hold your gall Split the hair - when you face the music Summer is in the eye of the Swift as a chimney swallowing a barn Symmetry: She is the lovely ideal There's one birthday that I'm pretty sure pretty much everyone will pretty much forget Three counts for mountebanks out of the eye A tiny snack can justify 'Tis better to have loved and lost To me there is only one day To repel the tearing terrorists Twinkle, twinkle, little star The U.N. has a resolution Walk off, walk off, Voltaire, Rousseau The Weekly World News and the National Enquirer What fun it is to mold your craft When a water drop arrives When the forts of folly fall When we first met I saw a blinding flash Who and when, where and why Who can know the future? Who, if I cried warning, would hear me among the angelic The world is charged with obstruction of justice