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Jack Spicer

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Any fool can get into an ocean …

Jack Spicer

Imagine Lucifer …

Jack Spicer

Dear Gary, …

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We, the Research Assistants and Teaching Assistants of the University of California, wish to register our protest against the new loyalty oath for the following reasons. …

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A diamond …

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I …

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When the trains come into strange cities …

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Your joke …

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Nothing is known about Helen but her voice …

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zeus: It is to be assumed that I do not exist while most people in the vision assume that I do exist. This is to be one of the extents of meaning between the players and the audience. I have to talk like this because I am the lord of both kinds of sky—and I don't mean your sky and their sky because they are signs, I mean the bright sky and the burning sky. I have no intention of showing you my limits. The players in this poem are players. They have taken their parts not to deceive you [or me for that matter] but because they have been paid in love or coin to be players. I have known for a long time that there is not a fourth wall in a play. I am called Zeus and I know this. …

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What are you thinking about? …

Jack Spicer

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