Every Beginning Wants a Good Place to Start<\/p>\n
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According to laws of ownership, Notice how roofs lift their houses into reason, Starting today, you\u2019ll study the discipline <\/p>\n Kate Lebo\u2019s<\/a> poems appear in Best New Poets 2011, Poetry Northwest, <\/a>Bateau,<\/em> and The Pacific Poetry Project, <\/a><\/em>among other anthologies and journals. She\u2019s an editor for Filter,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0a literary journal made entirely by hand, and the recipient of a Nelson Bentley Fellowship, a 4Culture grant, and a Soapstone residency. Currently an MFA candidate at the University of Washington, Kate hosts a semi-regular semi-secret pie social called Pie Stand whenever schoolwork allows. Visit Pie-Scream<\/a> for more about Kate\u2019s zine A Commonplace Book of Pie<\/em> and other tasty treats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every Beginning Wants a Good Place to Start According to laws of ownership, you\u2019re homeless. According to virology you\u2019re hunted, sore-throated, snotty. By psychology you\u2019re understood and spun out, an iced tire. In fashion you\u2019re an adopter, a crofter, … Continue reading
\nyou\u2019re homeless. According to virology
\nyou\u2019re hunted, sore-throated, snotty.
\nBy psychology you\u2019re understood
\nand spun out, an iced tire. In fashion
\nyou\u2019re an adopter, a crofter, a little black<\/em>
\n smock of sleep.<\/em><\/p>\n
\ntheir stories into debt. How leather walks years
\nafter the first bloody cut
\nand shoes say something faster about a man
\nthan his wallet because you don\u2019t
\nhave to ask to see them.<\/p>\n
\nof what you don\u2019t know
\nabout what you don\u2019t want. You want this
\nlike the flu wants lungs. Today,
\nkeep it simple when simple makes sense.
\nDon\u2019t start with schoolbooks. Start
\nwith breakfast.<\/p>\n