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****FINAL**** SANTA ROSA, CALIF., SATURDAY JULY 24, 1976 PRICELESS |
Miss Oregon 1946 Miss Oregon 1946 buys groceries at Ralphs, flirts with me, presses hard into cantaloupes shakes watermelons sniffs bananas, says they pick these darn things too green, before the sugars sweeten call me snobbish, but I won't buy green bananas! She married a white corn farmer sixty years ago, she loved how he would rise at 4AM join brown skinned hands & touch corn stalks like anointing the feet of Jesus. Together they ship food to starved children we feel sorry for on television. They never watch television. He has Alzheimer's. She has a smile begging admiration. I imagine how she cart-wheeled into frat boy hearts as an Oregon State Cheerleader atop the pyramid, decades of folded skin smooth again, the Miss Congeniality smile that impressed her judges that captivated her husband. I imagine long auburn hair curled precisely for all those foolish boys to gawk at. She continues to grow white corn, & tend to her husband. She is a stranger some days. Though he always smiles at pretty ladies he can not remember how much he loves her, so she remembers for him.
SAN DIEGO, Cali. (AP) - William Carlos Williams said it best: no ideas but in things.
Images are essential to poetry. Ideas are great for philosophy, but poetry needs things to move language.
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LA MESA, Cali. (AP) - Space time place is essential to writing the Great American Novel.
Moby Dick, On the Road, even American Psycho delve deep into the American conscience.
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PORTLAND, Or. (AP) - Hypermnesia stirs images of former lovers, childhood hauntings, and encounters with true poetic vagabonds.
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - West coast poet Kelly Braden attempts to dissect the world around him, and color it with something more beautiful than ordinary observation.
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