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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Objects Used to Prop Open a Window\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Objects Used to Prop Open a Window\n\nDog bone, stapler,\ncribbage board, garlic press\nbecause this window is loose—lacks\nsuction, lacks grip.\nBungee cord, bootstra... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The New Church\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The New Church\n\nThe old cupola glinted above the clouds, shone\namong fir trees, but it took him an hour\nfor the half mile all the way up the hill. As he trailed,\nthe village passed h... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Look for Me\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look for Me\n\nLook for me under the hood\nof that old Chevrolet settled in weeds\nat the end of the pasture.\nI'm the radiator that spent its years\nbolted in front of an engine\nshoving me... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Wild Life\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Wild Life\n\nBehind the silo, the Mother Rabbit\nhunches like a giant spider with strange calm:\nsix tiny babies beneath, each\nclamoring for a sweet syringe of milk.\nThis may sound cute to y... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Umbrella\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Umbrella\n\nWhen I push your button\nyou fly off the handle,\nold skin and bones,\nblack bat wing.\nWe're alike, you and I.\nBoth of us\nresemble my mother,\nso fierce in her advocacy\non behal... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Sunday\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sunday\n\nYou are the start of the week\nor the end of it, and according\nto The Beatles you creep in\nlike a nun. You're the second\nfull day the kids have been\naway with their father, the seco... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Invisible Fish\" about Living, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Social Commentaries, History & Politics."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Invisible Fish\n\nInvisib... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit\" about Religion, The Spiritual, Mythology & Folklore, Fairy-tales & Legends."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit\n\nDon’t bother the earth spirit who lives here. She is working on ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The One Thing That Can Save America\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The One Thing That Can Save America\n\nIs anything central?\nOrchards flung out on the land,\nUrban forests, rustic plantations, knee-high hills?\nAre place names cen... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[\"Hour in which I consider hydrangea\"]\" about Living, Parenthood, The Body, The Mind, Nature, Trees & Flowers."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "[\"Hour in which I consider hydrangea\"]\n\nHour in which I consider hydrangea, a salt or s... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Stung\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Stung\n\nShe couldn't help but sting my finger,\nclinging a moment before I flung her\nto the ground. Her gold is true, not the trick\nevening light plays on my roses.\nShe curls into herself, sti... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Nothing But Good...\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Nothing But Good...\n\nI will not speak ill of Jack Flick.\nI will rarely look\nat the scar he made on my cheek\none summer at the lake.\nI won't speak ill of Jack whose freckles\nan... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"How Quiet\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "How Quiet\n\nHow quiet is the spruce,\nthe wind twills\nthrough the uppermost tier\nof splayed leaves.\nNow the song of a bird\nlike the squeaky lock\nover a canoe's oar,\nfollowed by startlin... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Porcupine\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Porcupine\n\nYou think we are the pointed argument,\nthe man drunk at the party showing off\nhis gun collection, the bed of nettles.\n\nWhat we really are is hidden from you:\ngirl weeping in ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Summer Apples\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Summer Apples\n\nI planted an apple tree in memory\nof my mother, who is not gone,\n\nbut whose memory has become\nso transparent that she remembers\n\nslicing apples with her grandmother\... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Visiting the Neighborhood\"."
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{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Visiting the Neighborhood\n\nThe entrance at the back of the complex\nled onto a road, where an upended couch\ntilted into a ditch and a washing machine\ngleamed avocado beneat... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"scars\" about The Body, Family & Ancestors."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "scars\n\nmy father’s body is a map\na record of his journey\n\nhe carries a bullet\nlodged in his left thigh\nthere is a hollow where it entered\na protruding bu... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"what remains two\" about Infancy, Parenthood, The Body."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "what remains two\n\nit has long been forgotten this practice of the mother\nweaning a child she crushes the seeds of a green\nchili rubs it to her ni... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"West of Myself\" about Coming of Age."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "West of Myself\n\nWhy are you still seventeen\nand drifting like a dog after dark,\ndragging a shadow you’ve found?\n\nPut it back where it belongs,\nand that bend of ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Yes\" about Coming of Age, Youth."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes\n\nYes, your childhood now a legend of fountains\n—jorge gullén\n\n\n\nYes, your childhood, now a legend\ngone to weeds, still remembers the gray road\nthat set out to... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Bounden Duty\" about Humor & Satire, History & Politics."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Bounden Duty\n\nI got a call from the White House, from the\nPresident himself, asking me if I’d do him a personal\nfavor. I like the President, so ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"History\" about History & Politics, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "History\n\nOf course wars, of course lice, of course limbs on opposing sides\nto remind a body about ambivalence, of course orphans and empty beds and ey... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"What It Was Like\" about Money & Economics."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "What It Was Like\n\nIf they ask what it was like, say it was like the sea\nrolling barrels of itself at you in the shadowless light of the shore,\nsay it was lik... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"All\" about Life Choices, Faith & Doubt."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "All\n\nThe prisoner can’t go any longer, but he does.\nThe beggar can’t go on begging, but watch—\nTomorrow he’ll be in the alley, holding out a bowl\nTo everyone, ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Sleeping with Butler’s Lives of the Saints\" about Language & Linguistics, Poetry & Poets."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sleeping with Butler’s Lives of the Saints\n\nAfter Octavio Paz\n\n\n\nWhat’s most human must drive\nan arrow to t... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Hoodlum Birds\" about Animals."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hoodlum Birds\n\nThe fearless blackbirds see me again\nat the footpath beside the tall grasses\nsprouting like unruly morning hair.\nThey caw and caw like vulgar boys\non str... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Wilde's Tomb\" about Poetry & Poets."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Wilde's Tomb\n\nBut these, thy lovers are not dead.…They will rise up and hear your voice. . .. and run to kiss your mouth.\n–The Sphinx\n\n\n\nIn the garden of Père La... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Poem of Death\" about Death."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Poem of Death\n\nThis is the poem of death.\nThere is only one\nand no other.\n\nEvery one is an occasion,\none way or another,\nand the last poem is this poem of death... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Innocents at Sandy Hook\" about Sorrow & Grieving."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Innocents at Sandy Hook\n\nNothing can reach you now, not lead or steel,\nor what life itself eventually reveals.\n\nNo more studies of kindness o... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Fiddlers at the Desert Valley County Care Center\" about Death, Sorrow & Grieving."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Fiddlers at the Desert Valley County Care Center\n\nAmong physicians rich in their death watch\nIn hallways crowded with l... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Face\" about Sorrow & Grieving."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Face\n\nImagine half your face\nrubbed out yet\nyou are suited up\nand walking\nto the office.\n\nHow will your mates\ngreet you?\nwith heavy hearts,\nflowers,\nrosary beads... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Order\" about Faith & Doubt."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Order\n\nJesus did not ride that monstrous wave,\nnot Yahweh, Jah, Allah, none of the major\n\nGods or the minor ones, not even the godless\nstrode that bugger which sliced our... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The City, with Elephants\" about Travels & Journeys, Class."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The City, with Elephants\n\nThe elephants of reckoning\nare bunches of scruff\nmen and women picking up\nthrown out antennae\nfrom the rubbish\nb... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Words for the Sri Lanka Tourist Office\" about Weather."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Words for the Sri Lanka Tourist Office\n\nThe King Cobra slides\nthrough our jungles,\nand tucked in bushes\nby the riverbanks\nthe grand Kabaragoya\... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Kiss\" about Realistic & Complicated."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Kiss\n\nKissing your lips\nI try to forget roses\nor the fruit of palmyra trees\nsweet and strong\n\nTongue lolling upon tongue\nheart beating\nagainst heart beating,\... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part one\" about Pets."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part one\n\nin florida a giant hamster lays in bed worrying ab... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part three\" about Pets."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part three\n\nin the evening the hamster sits at the compute... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"thirteen of twenty-four\" about The Body."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "thirteen of twenty-four\n\nnotice how my forehead approaches you at a high speed\nnotice the contortions on my face; hear and feel the impact\nof my forehead again... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Turtle Came to See Me\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Turtle Came to See Me\n\nThe first story I ever write\nis a bright crayon picture\nof a dancing tree, the branches\ntossed by island wind.\nI draw myself standing beside the tree,\... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Kinship\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Kinship\n\nTwo sets\nof family stories,\none long and detailed,\nabout many centuries\nof island ancestors, all living\non the same tropical farm...\nThe other side of the family tells stories\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Ritmo/Rhythm\"."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ritmo/Rhythm\n\nMad has decided to catch a vulture,\nthe biggest bird she can find.\n\nShe is so determined, and so inventive,\nthat by stringing together a rickety trap\nof ropes and stick... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"More Dangerous Air\" about Coming of Age, Social Commentaries, Cities & Urban Life, History & Politics, Race & Ethnicity, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "More Dangerous Air\n\nNewsmen call it the Cuban Missile Crisis.\nTe... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Napalm\" about The Body."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Napalm\n\nI have come to realize the body is its own pyre, that degree\nrises from within, the fatty acids a kind of kindling.\nLike a scientist in a lab, this much I have establis... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"vigil\" about Animals, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "vigil\n\nAnd both the girls cried bitterly (though they hardly knew why) and clung to the Lion and kissed his mane and his nose and his paws and his great, sad eyes. ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"loose strife [Somebody says draw a map]\" about Poetry & Poets, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "loose strife [Somebody says draw a map]\n\nSomebody says draw a map. Populate it with the incidents\nof your childhood. Mark ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"loose strife [Listen closely as I sing this]\" about Poetry & Poets, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "loose strife [Listen closely as I sing this]\n\nListen closely as I sing this. The man standing at the gate\ntottering o... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"loose strife [Say, when we woke those icy spring mornings]\" about War & Conflict."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "loose strife [Say, when we woke those icy spring mornings]\n\nSay, when we woke those icy spring mornings they were still ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Craft [The first great poet]\" about Sorrow & Grieving, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Craft [The first great poet]\n\nThe first great poet of\nthe crisis the one whose\ngeneration was left as if\nfire... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Someone once said we were put on this earth to witness and testify\" about Birth & Birthdays."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Someone once said we were put on this earth to witness and testify\n\nNowhere in the Halakha’s fiv... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"crossing the South China Sea as analgesia\" about Travels & Journeys."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "crossing the South China Sea as analgesia\n\nOne day we will all be like this—the boat’s sickening pitch, & the delicateness\nneedless,... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"lion\" about Animals, War & Conflict."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "lion\n\nShagged-gold, at rest the great haunches\nas if axled, fur sleeked like a butter rug.\nIn the Serengeti sun, the male’s harem\n\nlike a solar system, each lady... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Thanksgiving\" about Family & Ancestors, War & Conflict."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Thanksgiving\n\nLiterally the thing has been gutted, a ragged gash\ncarved under its tail to midway up its chest, eyes\nlike stagnant water, horns i... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Allowance\" about Jobs & Working, Home Life."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Allowance\n\nI am ten.\nMy mother sits in a black\nrocking chair in the parlor\nand tells stories of a country school\nsurrounded by ricefields\nand no roads.\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Block 18, Tule Lake Relocation Camp\" about Realistic & Complicated, History & Politics, War & Conflict."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Block 18, Tule Lake Relocation Camp\n\n—for James I. Ina\n\n\n\n1.\nThe emotion of trucks, buses & t... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Painting by a Mental Patient, Weaverville City Jail, California, 1922\" about Health & Illness, The Mind, Painting & Sculpture."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Painting by a Mental Patient, Weaverville City Jail, California, 1922\n\n—dis... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"New Lines for Fortune Cookies\" about Eating & Drinking, Humor & Satire."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "New Lines for Fortune Cookies\n\n—after Frank O’Hara\n\n\n\nYou have been smiling across the table at your date\nwith a sesame seed ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Spring Poem For the Sake of Breathing, Written After a Walk to Foster Island\" about Time & Brevity, Spring."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Spring Poem For the Sake of Breathing, Written After a Walk to Foster Island\n\nThe sky wants th... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Sweetest Oranges in Town\" about Health & Illness, Winter."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Sweetest Oranges in Town\n\nNo, I am not deformed.\nI wear these socks\nBecause I haven't any gloves,\nAnd my fingers are bitten with fros... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Breath-Holding Contest\" about Sports & Outdoor Activities."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Breath-Holding Contest\n\nThat boy, the champion breath holder,\nKenji Takezo, lost his title\nThis year to Mack Stanton\nA retired truck... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Ocean Inside Him\" about Seas, Rivers, & Streams."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Ocean Inside Him\n\nAfter Kenji Takezo fell from a wave,\nThe turbulence of whitewash confused\nHis sense of direction.\nHe breathed in\nWhen he sh... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"October, Remembering the Ride No One Saw\" about Landscapes & Pastorals, Money & Economics."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "October, Remembering the Ride No One Saw\n\nSteel horses nodding\nIn the petroleum field are beasts\nThat suck\nT... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Human Knowledge\" about Coming of Age, Stars, Planets, Heavens."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Human Knowledge\n\nAbout the only thing I thought I knew\nwas that nothing I’d ever know would do\nany good. Sunrise, say, or that the part\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Unfunky UFO\" about School & Learning, Stars, Planets, Heavens."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Unfunky UFO\n\nThe first space shuttle launch got delayed until\nSunday, so we had to watch the shuttle’s return\nto Earth in class instead—P... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Illinois Abe Lincoln’s Hat\" about Cities & Urban Life, Race & Ethnicity."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Illinois Abe Lincoln’s Hat\n\nblacks painted onto bricks & split vinyl on the East Side,\njaws as tight as window locks with the cu... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Collectable Blacks\" about Cities & Urban Life, Crime & Punishment."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Collectable Blacks\n\nThis is the g-dropping vernacular\nI am stuck in. This is the polyphone\nwhere my head is an agrarian gang\nsign po... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Stone: 24\" about Stars, Planets, Heavens."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Stone: 24\n\nLeaves scarcely breathing\nin the black breeze;\nthe flickering swallow\ndraws circles in the dusk.\n\nIn my loving\ndying heart\na twiligh... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Stone: 98\" about Time & Brevity, Animals."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Stone: 98\n\nThe clock-cricket singing,\nthat’s the fever rustling.\nThe dry stove hissing,\nthat’s the fire in red silk.\n\nThe teeth of mice milling\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Stone: 103 The Twilight of Freedom\" about History & Politics."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Stone: 103 The Twilight of Freedom\n\nLet us praise the twilight of freedom, brothers,\nthe great year of twilight!\nA thick forest ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Stone: 122\" about Realistic & Complicated."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Stone: 122\n\nLet me be in your service\nlike the others\nmumbling predictions,\nmouth dry with jealousy.\nParched tongue\nthirsting, not even for the ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Poems: 140 1 January 1924\" about History & Politics."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Poems: 140 1 January 1924\n\nWhoever kisses time’s ancient nodding head\nwill remember later, like a loving son,\nhow the old man lay down to... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Poems of the Thirties: 286 [The Stalin Epigram]\" about History & Politics."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Poems of the Thirties: 286 [The Stalin Epigram]\n\nOur lives no longer feel ground under them.\nAt ten paces you can’t ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Love Letters\" about Growing Old, Health & Illness."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Love Letters\n\nMany months have passed\nsince the diagnosis,\nand you’re still grieving for her.\nShe’s not dead yet.\nBut she’s lost, like a child is l... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Shower\" about Growing Old, Health & Illness, The Body."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Shower\n\nIn her illness\nElizabeth believes we do this deliberately,\nthe washing of her body.\nShe blames me,\nher Japanese daughter-in-law\nfor ha... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Womanhood\" about Sorrow & Grieving, Family & Ancestors."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Womanhood\n\nWhen I was three,\na tsunami hit town.\n“Daddy, Daddy, save me,\ndon’t let me drown.”\nHe saved me\nand my common-type dolls.\n\nWhen I... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Homeless\" about Parenthood, Home Life."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Homeless\n\nMy son lives on the streets.\nWe don’t see each other much.\nLike a mother who puts white lilies\non the headstone of a dead child,\nI put money into his... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Bees Were Better\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Bees Were Better\n\nIn college, people were always breaking up.\nWe broke up in parking lots,\nbeside fountains.\nTwo people broke up\nacross a table from me\nat the library.\nI could n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Burning Monk\" about Life Choices, Social Commentaries, History & Politics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Burning Monk\n\nFrom the remains\nof his cremation,\nthe monks recovered\n\nthe seat of Thich Quang Duc’s\nconsciousness —\n\na b... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Model Minorities\" about Family & Ancestors, Crime & Punishment."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Model Minorities\n\nin the shooter’s\nface, she recognizes\n\nher sibling’s coarse\nunforgiving hair,\n\nhis yellow skin,\n& vacant stare,\n... | null |
[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"A Day Without an Immigrant, Dallas, Texas\" about Money & Economics, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A Day Without an Immigrant, Dallas, Texas\n\nAt Pearl Street station,\ntwo brown-skinned men\n\nin painter’s pants sta... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Search & Recovery\" about Parenthood, Travels & Journeys."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Search & Recovery\n\nFor James Kim (1971 — 2006)\n\n\n\nit could have\nhappened to any\nof us\n\na wrong turn\ndown a logging road\ntires tunneled\... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from What the Heart Longs For When It Only Knows Heat [\"We spend the afternoon together watching a docudrama...\"]\" about Animals, Photography & Film."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from What the Heart Longs For When It Only Knows Hea... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Solar Maximum [\"My skin crawls at odd hours of the day...\"]\" about Health & Illness, The Body."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Solar Maximum [\"My skin crawls at odd hours of the day...\"]\n\nMy skin crawls at odd hours of t... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Solar Maximum [\"How much chemical disorder...\"]\" about Health & Illness, The Body."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Solar Maximum [\"How much chemical disorder...\"]\n\nHow much chemical disorder\ncan be survived depends ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Three Blue Butterflies\" about Animals."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Three Blue Butterflies\n\nI. MORPHO MENELAUS\n\nFoiled acqua-\nmoiré wings the\nbutterfly’s beauty-\nmark hydraulic in its\npurposes his\nhair’s flame lifts\nyou s... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[\"Something I learned about agape when I was young...\"]\" about Poetry & Poets."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[\"Something I learned about agape when I was young...\"]\n\nSomething I learned about agape when I was young: the Iliad te... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The German word for dream is traume.\" about Coming of Age, The Body."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The German word for dream is traume.\n\nThe coal-dust hushed\nparameters of the room.\n\nOutside, my mother stitched\nwhole dresses for... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Split\" about Men & Women, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Split\n\nI see my mother, at thirteen,\nin a village so small\nit’s never given a name.\n\nMonsoon season drying up—\nsteam lifting in full-bodied waves.\nShe cho... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[\"My father does his own dental work\"]\" about Home Life, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[\"My father does his own dental work\"]\n\nMy father does his own dental work.\nA power drill and epoxy\nand steady hands—\n\nOn... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"My Mother upon Hearing News of Her Mother’s Death\" about Sorrow & Grieving."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My Mother upon Hearing News of Her Mother’s Death\n\nShe opened her mouth and a moose came out, a donkey, and an ox—out of her m... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Properties of Light\" about The Body, The Spiritual."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Properties of Light\n\nMid-October in Central Park, one of the elms\nhas changed early, burning with a light\ngrown accustomed to its own magnif... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Zero Gravity\" about Stars, Planets, Heavens, Sciences."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Zero Gravity\n\nThe dry basin of the moon must have held\nthe bones of a race, radiant minerals,\nor something devoid of genesis, angel-heavy,\nidea-... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Factory of Souls\" about Realistic & Complicated, Sciences."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Factory of Souls\n\nIt takes just two people to bring the world\nto ruin. So goes the history of love.\nAt the end of the day we tally the casual... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Opposite of Nostalgia\" about Heartache & Loss, Fall."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Opposite of Nostalgia\n\nYou are running away from everyone\nwho loves you,\nfrom your family,\nfrom old lovers, from friends.\n\nThey run afte... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"the luams speak of god\" about Family & Ancestors, Animals."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "the luams speak of god\n\nIf there is a god, let it be the hyena\nwho plunges her mouth into the river after eating\nour grandfather’s poisoned b... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Second Estrangement\" about Youth."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Second Estrangement\n\nPlease raise your hand,\nwhomever else of you\nhas been a child,\nlost, in a market\nor a mall, without\nknowing it at first, following\na stranger... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from The Black Maria\" about Stars, Planets, Heavens, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from The Black Maria\n\nafter Neil deGrasse Tyson, black astrophysicist & director of the Hayden\nPlanetarium, born in 1958, New York... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Something Something Something Grand\" about The Body."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Something Something Something Grand\n\nI adore you: you’re a harrowing event.\nI like you very ugly, condensed to one\ndeep green pang. You cannot ask ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Pantoum\" about Realistic & Complicated, Stars, Planets, Heavens."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Pantoum\n\nTaking on an aspect of the Orient,\nSkies full of hatchets and oranges\nLove, uninvited, hangs in the blood:\nBut what is a king... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Just Disaster\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Just Disaster\n\nWe stopped to watch the accident.\nFire! It had finally come to pass.\nJust as surely as I was a coward\ncarrying a wolf. It stepped out from me,\nit was paradise leaving ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Lucky Duck\" about Life Choices."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Lucky Duck\n\nBe large with those small fears. The whole sky\nhas fallen on you and all you can do about it is\nshout, dragging your fear-ettes by their pinked ears.\n\nThe... | null |
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