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Bill Knott Poems

  • Goodbye
    If you are still alive when you read this,
    close your eyes. I am
    under their lids, growing black.
    ...
  • Face In The Window
    I am a modest house, a house solely
    notable for the fact I lived here once.
    Its brass plaque depicts an oxygen eye
    in which two pupils of hydrogen dance. ...
  • Obsolescent
    Bending over like this to get my hands empty
    Rummaging through the white trashcans out back
    Of the Patent Office I find a kind of peace
    Here in this warm-lit alley where no one comes. ...
  • Escape Plan
    I examine
    my skin

    searching for ...
  • (desire)threadbare(desires)
    -to S.

    The light lay in shreds across the bed,
    only your waking could make it whole; ...
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World 9 Death 8 Light 8 Time 7 Face 6 Sun 5 Long 5 Space 5 House 4 Night 4


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Lindyli: fake ass christian josh hawley wants to investigate the nashville massacre as a hate crime the same hawley who was the only no vote against the anti-asian hate crime bill the same hawley who illegally took $1 million from the nra he’s a foot soldier for the merchants of death
Tedcruz: the covenant school shooting was horrific. for everyone who says “thoughts & prayers aren’t enough,” i agree. ask why every single senate dem voted against my bill doubling police officers in school. one armed officer could have stopped this lunatic, before a child was killed.
The_tfp: today's updates: florida s1674, a bathroom bill, has a hearing on thursday, march 30th at 8:30 am in 412 knott building. read more here:
Davebudge: it's a good day for a broadcast subtweet with a sweet little poem by bill knott. wrong i wish to be misunderstood that is understood from your perspective
Ae_stallings: minor poem the only response to a child's grave is to lie down before it and play dead --bill knott
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Suppose
 by Eugene Field

Suppose, my dear, that you were I
And by your side your sweetheart sate;
Suppose you noticed by and by
The distance 'twixt you were too great;
Now tell me, dear, what would you do?
I know-and so do you.

And when (so comfortably placed)
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