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Sam Riviere
The Mysterious Lives of the Stars
The Mysterious Lives of the Stars
The Mysterious Lives of the Stars
I want something what is itthose little boobies from 1964
in the Willy Ronis exhibition
in something like somebody’s
new raspberry sweater I don’t
wear sunglasses though
I like opacity I like that you
can’t see my expression as
I’m sitting writing this
in my favourite T shirt the one
with the retro pin-up girl
listening to a black telephone on it
& with yellow armpits like Rimbaud
bless the powers that have taken
our grievances away from us
© 2011, Sam Riviere
Publisher: Previously published on http://daysofroses.wordpress.com and clinicpresents.com,
Publisher: Previously published on http://daysofroses.wordpress.com and clinicpresents.com,
Sam Riviere
(UK, 1981)
Britain is currently enjoying something of a poetry renaissance, fuelled by a generation of young and emerging poets; one of these is Sam Riviere. One of the founding editors (along with Jack Underwood) of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives, Sam has been published in a variety of magazines since 2005, and last year attracted attention with an online multimedia poetry project calle...
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The Mysterious Lives of the Stars
I want something what is itthose little boobies from 1964
in the Willy Ronis exhibition
in something like somebody’s
new raspberry sweater I don’t
wear sunglasses though
I like opacity I like that you
can’t see my expression as
I’m sitting writing this
in my favourite T shirt the one
with the retro pin-up girl
listening to a black telephone on it
& with yellow armpits like Rimbaud
bless the powers that have taken
our grievances away from us
The Mysterious Lives of the Stars
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