#thepoeming2024

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 33

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[thestepfordpoet]

10.16

a poem, left a placemark first, a zig-zag, t h e n...

... i won't do it again

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 96-116.

[stepfordwivespoems]

The bullshit changed

into a house

on fire

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 85

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[stepfordwivespoems]

her mouth open

undressed, lying on her back—

Did God remember her?

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 14

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[thestepfordpoet]

10.1

collect ed good-by s are sudden,

pressing - with a surprising silence, and

a dying dot of light

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 5-8.

[stepfordwivespoems]

The country and presidential

figures are hunting The Daughters

of Heaven

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 99

[stepfordwivespoems]

zombie-ized mother was

looking bland— dead

to interest,

to want

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 67

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[thestepfordpoet]

10.13

i think i remember something possible

just think - a minute, free of change

women who know... sound so fantastic

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Also found on these pages: THE FANTASTIC BOOBS (and I needed to acknowlege them)

Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 84-86.

[thestepfordpoet]

10.7

she spoke

of waiting…

a prisoner for a solid hour

time, a storm -

ready and willing

to touch ambiguity

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 35.

[thestepfordpoet]

10.30

eligible corpses in

lifelike positions

thought change knew

the possibility of wake-ing

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 30.

[stepfordwivespoems]

The women bleed for God’s sake

Man would convince her

to bleed without argument

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 114

[stepfordwivespoems]

She opened steadily

expanding…

a fire quickly

formed of purpose

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 97

[stepfordwivespoems]

concocting questions for women

with outside interests to

develop their character

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 93

[thestepfordpoet]

10.20

I'll be catastrophic, really, an eye-sting of fluorescence and red plastic

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 144.

[thestepfordpoet]

10.17

i'm sorry, i won't smile... this time

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Found poem. Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. Harper Torch, 2004. pg. 116-120.

[stepfordwivespoems]

A game

of concentration

was better than

the hospital

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 79

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