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Oh, dear, dear, dear! Not another day like yesterday!

Posted onMarch 22, 2020 By admindavid

We put all our money in a 401k
but now we wonder if it will ever pay
the stock market fibrillates
while retirement waits
Oh, dear! Not another day like yesterday!
… Continue Reading >Oh, dear, dear, dear! Not another day like yesterday!

Evil is, i believe, the Absence of Empathy.

Posted onMarch 21, 2020 By admindavid

sapphic trauma # 24954
zu schlafen, vielleicht zu traumpt

I stop at the 1-lane low-water-crossing
to wait for another car, then another
then another, then another speeding up
to join the convoy
… Continue Reading >Evil is, i believe, the Absence of Empathy.

Sappho – Queen of Immediacy!

Posted onMarch 21, 2020 By admindavid

i have always prized ‘immediacy’ / ‘now-ness’
as a major component of poetic moments … Continue Reading >Sappho – Queen of Immediacy!

Because i have failed in the art of failure, Poems: I am successful

Posted onMarch 19, 2020 By admindavid

seeking immortality

Posted onMarch 18, 2020 By admindavid

seeking immortality
i googled
“how to download my self into my pc”
but
most of the results
concerned admin privileges … Continue Reading >seeking immortality

lubricants

Posted onMarch 17, 2020March 17, 2020 By admindavid

Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons, “In a Manner That Must Shame God Himself” Jon Stewart, Colbert, John Oliver, et al … Continue Readinglubricants

white rabbit fever

Posted onMarch 17, 2020 By admindavid

a metaphor for the human condition. … Continue Reading >white rabbit fever

7 kinds of love

Posted onMarch 16, 2020 By admindavid

Eros: romantic, passionate love. …
Philia: intimate, authentic friendship. …
Ludus: playful, flirtatious love. …
Storge: unconditional, familial love. …
Philautia: self-love. …
Pragma: committed, companionate love. …
Agápe: empathetic, universal love. … Continue Reading >7 kinds of love

Nothing is Real – Jenn Zed

Posted onMarch 14, 2020 By admindavid

one of my imaginary internet friends, Jenn Zed . . . this seems to me an excellent book cover, for … Continue ReadingNothing is Real – Jenn Zed

Jane Hirshfield – O M G

Posted onMarch 12, 2020 By admindavid

I first met Jane Hirshfield about fifteen years ago, after one of her readings in San Francisco. She reads her … Continue ReadingJane Hirshfield – O M G

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David E. Matthews

David E. Matthews is a failed poet based in Warwick, RI. Read more

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Books of Poetry

  • The Emily Dickinson Bee Towel Catalog
  • pffft! – a Poly-eFFable-Fungible Token Catalog
  • Fulsome Times
  • Max Nix
  • Opus In Progressu
  • American Bughouse / Left with Ludwig
  • Cantos Poesia
  • Traum von dem Gescheitert Dichter
  • beyond:
  • v1
  • Walk With Me
  • Back to Confucius
  • Better Late Than Never—Sez Who?
  • My S-Word: 1972 – 1999
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