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Everette Maddox—a New Orleans poet and barfly—wrote on the backs of napkins and menus. Largely overlooked, his poems are funny, devastating shots of wayward genius.
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Jan.4.2022
A call is just a call. I pick it up.
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I lift blankets looking for my father.
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When I take off the patch, your eye is gone.
I spend the day in other people’s tears.
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Someone says your eyelid almost came off,
the doctors tried...
A call is just a call. I pick it up.
Jan.6.2022
I lift blankets looking for my father.
Jan.7.2022
When I take off the patch, your eye is gone.
I spend the day in other people’s tears.
Jan.9.2022
Someone says your eyelid almost came off,
the doctors tried...
Poem
By John Keats
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought...
Poem of the day
It is a dangerous thing
to forget the climate of your birthplace,
to choke out the voices of dead relatives...
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imagined.
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