#buffet etiquette

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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; "Buffet Etiquette"

[Text ID: My house is a silent film. My house is infested with subtitles. ::: That's all. That's all. I have nothing else to say.]

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i can go anywhere i want just not home

Hieu Minh Nguyen Buffet Etiquette / Steven Berkoff The Fall of the House of Usher / image: unknown words: The Pretty Reckless Under the Water / Adonis Body (trans. Khaled Mattawa) / AroraA #6 / Robin Ekiss The Bones of August / image: unknown words: Tracy K. Smith Ash / Clementine von Radics Courtney Love Prays to Oregon / Anna Akhmatova The Last Toast (trans. Donald Michael Thomas)

i. Hieu Minh Nguyen, Buffet Etiquette

[ "My house is a silent film. / My house is infested with subtitles. // That's all. That's all. / I have nothing else to say" ]

ii. Steven Berkoff, The Fall of the House of Usher

[ "FRIEND. You must leave this house / USHER. How can I? These walls are my skin. The room is my heart. Besides, I have a sister." ]

iii. unknown/The Pretty Reckless, Under the Water

[ Background image of a burning house surrounded by snow. "there's not a time for being younger / and all my friends are enemies / and if i cried unto my mother / no, she wasn't there / she wasn't there for me" ]

iv. Adonis, Body

[ "And his ghosts said: Let's move on / Before us the body is piling itself upon itself / secret by secret / Rot is also a heart / rot is also childhood / rot is also what love is" ]

v. AroarA, #6

[ "I've dreamed since I was / four years old // that the house is slowly on fire / that the house is slowly on fire // and I can't get you to leave it / and I can't get you to leave it" ]

vi. Robin Ekiss, The Bones of August

[ "Is it history / or home / that hurts us / more?" ]

vii. unknown/Tracy K. Smith, Ash

[ Washed out image of a man standing in front of a big maze-like structure looking up at it. "House of lies / And pride and bone." ]

viii. Clementine von Radics, Courtney Love Prays to Oregon

[ "What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?" ]

ix. Anna Akhmatova, The Last Toast

[ "I drink to our demolished house, / To all this wickedness, / To you, our loneliness together, / I raise my glass- // And to the dead-cold eyes, / The lie has betrayed us, / The coarse, brutal world, the fact / That God has not saved us." ]

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Buffet Etiquette, Hieu Minh Nguyen

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BUFFET ETIQUETTE   | Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Buffet Etiquette, Hieu Minh Nguyen