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Best Poems from "Hip Logic" by Terrence Hayes

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Rated 1 point - posted 15 years ago by danielleblasko in category Books.

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HIP LOGIC

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segregate

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THE SAME CITY

An excerpted line or two does not do this poem justice, it must be read in its entirety because it is filled with powerful images, and a twist that will bring a tear to your eye.

6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -

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TOUCH

"In stores where team logos hung/ Like animal skins."

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SLEEPING WOMAN

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emcee

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MOTHER TO SON

"& his fingers turned/ nipples until the music/ eased out of me...He was a palm full/ of tiny deaths, desire/ spilling cell by cell/ & desire swimming up stream."

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THE THINGS-NO-ONE-KNOWS BLUES

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ORIGIN OF THE DAYS

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preface

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FRIDAY POEM

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ambulance

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ARS POETICA #789

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nuclear

"A clan-/ destine airplane will appear wrapped in lace/ of a black dream. Then a flash like an ulcer/ bursting in God's gut... The bones burn clean."