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      March 27, 2024Shorthand 6-Pak RondeletDenise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton

      TL;DR
       
      Too long; didn’t read
      Didn’t want to miss Stranger Things
      Too long; didn’t read
      Watched Batman on YouTube instead
      Of reading about men with wings
      Or women having flings with kings
      Too long; didn’t read
       
       
       
      STFU
       
      Shut the fuck up
      Can’t you see I’m taking a nap?
      Shut the fuck up
      I’m dreaming of a hot hookup
      I made through my X-rated app
      I’m awake now in her jockstrap
      Shut the fuck up
       
       
       
      FWIW
       
      For what it’s worth
      I can’t make up an alibi
      For what it’s worth
      There’s nothing on this big old earth
      Makes me weep worse and wonder why
      I microwaved a butterfly
      (For what it’s worth)
       
       
       
      IMHO
       
      In my humble opinion
      Joaquin Phoenix is a dreamboat
      In my humble opinion
      he became vegan—vermilion
      blood from a hook, a fish’s throat
      that day dad took him on a boat
      That’s my humble opinion
       
       
       
      TBH
       
      To be honest
      I prefer my GRNS FRSH, my STK
      (To be honest)
      BBQ or BRSD or BNLESS
      Nothing tastes BTR than a GR8
      Big SAL with a SD of BF
      To be honest
       
       
       
      WDYT
       
      What do you think?
      Is the planet going to shit?
      What do you think?
      I say we’re standing on the brink—
      but is our disaster moonlit
      so sweetly we keep missing it?
      What do you think?

      from #83 – Collaboration

      Denise Duhamel

      “We had several memorial readings for Maureen, and my joke is that we had an open relationship and we weren’t monogamous. If you were there and ready to write, and you were a sweet soul, Maureen would write with you. She loved collaboration so much, and often collaborated with her students. Neil de la Flor and Kristine Snodgrass and Maureen were one set of collaborators (a triad), and then she had a foursome collaboration group with Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, and Holly Iglesias. She also collaborated extensively with Sam Ace. Both Aaron Smith and I completed whole collaborative manuscripts with her while she was ill. She had all these different collaborations going on even through her illness and treatment.”

      Maureen Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023) authored fifteen solo books of poetry, co-authored an additional thirteen, and wrote one memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, which won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography. She frequently collaborated with many poets, including Denise Duhamel, Samuel Ace, Neil de la Flor, David Trinidad, Kristine Snodgrass, cin salach, Niki Nolin, and Mia Leonin.

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