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A special announcement for this last day of April! Physical copies of my 7th chapbook, _The Case For Letting the Getty Center Burn_, are out. And if the 5 or so people who have been reading these want one, I can mail you one for free:

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Today's poem is the leading one in my second chapbook, published 2004. It's called "The Powers of Weevils". I'll post it in this thread.

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For today's poem I went back to my first chapbook. This was written in 2000, as far as I can tell, a year or so after I started writing poetry. It's called "Vahan Takeyan, Georgi Tenno". I'll post it in this thread.

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Today's poem is for a change a recent one, written sometime in 2020 and about the current day. And yes, it's two well-known poems combined. I'll post it in this thread. It's called "Send Her Back".

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Today's poem is one that i think I've posted here fairly recently, but I'm too exhausted to look up the old bookmark and Mastodon's search feature is impossible. It's called "Milkweed No Monarchs" and I'll post it in this thread.

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Today's poem is yet another one about poetry, published as part of my chapbook "a model of the universe". It's called "Open to all forms of creative activity" and I'll post it in this thread.

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Today's poem, The Rock, is my best one that I hadn't yet put somewhere on my blog.

https://rpuchalsky.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-rock.html

The Rock

(This was the lead poem in my chapbook "a model of the universe", published 2014).    It started with rock Large, grey-streaked Monolithic...

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Today's poem is called "After the Clash", and it follows from (and can be sung to) the Clash song "I'm So Bored with the USA".

I'll post it in this thread.

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Today's poem is called Snow Storm, and a quick search with Mastodon's dysfunctional search engine shows that I've already posted it twice lately. Maybe even three times:

https://rpuchalsky.blogspot.com/2011/06/snow-storm.html

Snow Storm

Snow Storm Massachusetts June 2011 (after this radio spot ) 1. You ever imagine shooting a kid? Getting sent to Iraq for one tour after ano...

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Today's is a pivotal poem for me, and one that I like more than my few readers. It's called "As you know, Katrina" and it's about the Katrina storm in New Orleans in 2005:

https://rpuchalsky.blogspot.com/2008/11/bob-knows-already.html

As you know, Katrina

As You Know, Katrina It was in New Orleans That he first appeared He was white, in his 50's With wild hair and a strange fixed grin And burn...