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William Lessard

William Lessard has writing that has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best American Experimental Writing, McSweeney’s, BOOTH, Plume, Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic . His visual work has been featured at MoMA PS1 and is part of the special collection at Poets House.

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Code

William Lessard

tonight i'm a 19 y.o. female because i have a thing for avo toast because code is the new ontology because the online quiz i took wants to rescue me wants to unhook the burst shopping bag from my fingers ...
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Service Agreement

William Lessard

Service Agreement The service provider does not guarantee, represent, or warrant that your use of the application will be uninterrupted or error-free. You agree that the service provider may cancel the service at any time...
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Two Poems

William Lessard

Paul Kelly First time I saw you you were riding a stolen motorcycle down the middle of our baseball field, the cops in hot pursuit. Last time I saw you ...
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Philosophers on Laughter
William Lessard
There is nothing to laugh at. Plato advised keeping it in: no laughter. What are you laughing at? Plato said Homer shouldn't have said the gods laugh. They laugh, you won't. H...
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Silent Calls: Short Poems from Sparrow
William Lessard
Silent Calls You know how sometimes the phone rings and when you answer it no one’s there? Many of those calls are made by cats. Science Virgin “I’m ...
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Photograph by Jean-Christian Bourcart for Toughboy excerpt
Santa Barbara–1980 / San Francisco–1982
William Lessard
Santa Barbara–1980 I didn’t have a mattress yet. it had been three months, but I still lay in my room on my dirty clothes, arranged under a fitted sheet. Ron stood in my doo...
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The Year of Our Lord Quetzalcoatl
William Lessard
The morning of the first day in the Dark Zone, I wake, still dreaming in black and white. I am Joan Crawford. I am Mildred Pierce. In the black of night, a storm is raging. I am in...
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John Ashbery
John Ashbery – an Oblique Remembrance
William Lessard
I was introduced to John Ashbery's poetry in the summer of 1971, by a beautiful young American poet living in London. We met at a church jumble sale in Belsize Square. Her flat was...
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