Author: David Schwarm
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Lolita Film Featival
PROTEST FAILS TO MAR FILM FEST ATTENDED BY CULTURAL GLITTERATI “Festival organizer, who did not want to be identified, describes protest as anti-free speech, anti-American, and blatantly discriminatory toward the pervert community. ‘We are here to stay’, pointing out that one of event’s co-sponsors (later identified as the porn site ixxx.com) has donated $100K to…
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XXXIV
All stood aloof, and at his partial moan Smil’d through their tears; well knew that gentle band Who in another’s fate now wept his own, As in the accents of an unknown land He sung new sorrow; sad Urania scann’d The Stranger’s mien, and murmur’d: “Who art thou?” He answer’d not, but with a…
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XXXIII
His head was bound with pansies overblown, And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue; And a light spear topp’d with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest’s noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasp’d it; of that crew He…
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The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night Hannah Sanghee Park Far cars, numerous.Lullaby (by a lull)and I pretend (I-10 as ocean).And dream (DNA remade)and dream. Maker(remake me), better methis time. And waketo a chorus of onecourting throughalarms, beeping,trilling silver, song.Mating call after call(no answers, no takers).And now it collects moreand further from nature. Desperate thing (who is the pitied?),what…
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XXXII
A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift— A Love in desolation mask’d—a Power Girt round with weakness—it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; even whilst we speak Is it not broken? On the withering flower The killing sun smiles brightly: on…
David Given Schwarm 