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I hope you haven't done it all, or at all
The extraordinary, truly envious thing about being a poet is that you have a realm of being in which no one can nor desires to make you do anything. It…
Cassie da Costa
Dec 18, 2021
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August 2021
Black Bill Part 4
Notes in preparation for the novel: He claims that O’Hara “doesn’t introspect or recollect much,” which is a lie if we’ve read the same thing. Every…
Cassie da Costa
Aug 31, 2021
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Black Bill Part 4
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March 2021
Black Bill Part 3
There was no plot. Before he said it, he knew she would say this didn’t matter, not that this was the point. It was childish to reply this way to a…
Cassie da Costa
Mar 6, 2021
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February 2021
Black Bill Part 2
It had been a good time to get pregnant. She was in the middle of everything at once, and it was going OK. It was best to be distracted while pregnant…
Cassie da Costa
Feb 3, 2021
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Black Bill Part 2
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January 2021
Black Bill
A series of data points, an array of successes
Cassie da Costa
Jan 9, 2021
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December 2020
The beautiful people are all dancers
I was soaring down the 33 on my way home from the dry cleaners, blasting Sam’s Town by The Killers. A self-help album intensely beloved by me. When we…
Cassie da Costa
Dec 17, 2020
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October 2020
In which I tell you what it all means
Because I don't want you to try to figure it out for yourself
Cassie da Costa
Oct 1, 2020
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August 2020
Railing against the narrowest establishment
In enthusiastic recognition of Joe Brainard
Cassie da Costa
Aug 18, 2020
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My favorite artists like chores
A virtual workshop
Cassie da Costa
Aug 12, 2020
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My favorite artists like chores
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May 2020
Financial counseling
There’s no money in poetry……… What to say except that when you contemplate the best thing to do with the one life you have, as it were. That there’s no…
Cassie da Costa
May 21, 2020
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April 2020
Three phone calls
Everyone who thinks they're a listener is a talker
Cassie da Costa
Apr 27, 2020
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March 2020
I dreamt of nothing (but when I was awake)
Love stories as a sequence of non-events
Cassie da Costa
Mar 6, 2020
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