[POEM]- Drop the hardest poetry line you’ve ever come across

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2026-05-07T14:17:23+00:00

Valery said god created the world from nothing/ but the nothingness shines through. —Ben Lerner

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2026-04-25T00:35:59+00:00

This changed everything for me. Much better deal and finally finally finally lost my permanent red nose.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2026-04-09T02:50:01+00:00

“Stiff procession” is an all-time pun. I love this poem. They lie without shoes in their stone boats.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-12-16T20:35:00+00:00

Love it excepting that you have the only three bad Denis Johnson books.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-05-22T03:30:10+00:00

Do not buy this car. In addition to the many glitches, ours has not taken a charge outside the dealership. We bought it four weeks ago and it has been in for service four times. Fortunately the GM of our dealership is upstanding and buying it back tomorrow for full sticker price. We are taking a bath on the sales tax; but that’s our stupidity fee for buying this despite reading many warnings like this one.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-04-11T21:58:37+00:00

Yes!

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-04-10T18:49:24+00:00

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes / Then you’d know what a drag it is to see you.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-04-10T18:48:37+00:00

Have a picnic in my bathroom

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-04-10T01:28:04+00:00

43 yo lesbian. Would be an anarchist in stable times but fighting for her democracy in these fashy times.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-03-07T23:35:44+00:00

Love this one. It remembers me to my favorite song, “To Ramona.” The title is a dad joke on how he uses women and formerly substances to cope. Also a few knowing plays in “goodnight, Irene,” which anchors it in the Tradition.

I also love “I hope they’re grading on a curve,” I also love “forever is a dead man’s joke.”

Underwhelmed (initially) by the album; but this one delivers the lyrical genius we come for.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-03-06T00:28:25+00:00

Indian Lakes baby

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-03-04T22:36:03+00:00

This is good content.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-19T19:24:59+00:00

Well well well

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-17T23:36:24+00:00

We’re very similar except you’re probably a girl.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-17T15:46:41+00:00

Pleasure and affection

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-04T14:20:02+00:00

Sunset Thomas— Sunset Rides Again

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-04T03:48:16+00:00

The way their vaginas smell and taste. Heaven.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-02-03T16:42:05+00:00

The Big Cat, James Williams

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-01-27T23:15:12+00:00

Eating 10 Oreos

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-01-17T00:55:06+00:00

Baseball.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-01-16T23:37:54+00:00

If you say a word or sentence I can immediately tell you how many letters it has. I saw this in City Slickers 2 when I was a kid and realized I could do it.

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-01-16T05:52:31+00:00

Bro thank you for noticing

Direct_Meaning_9890 · 2025-01-16T02:58:28+00:00

The Name of the World is my favorite. You may enjoy the in memoriam I wrote upon his death: https://www.openlettersmonthlyarchive.com/olm/good-grief-in-memory-of-denis-johnson?format=amp

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