The queens issue a BOLO for  poetry red flags before getting around to a satisfying Jack-Off.

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Watch Lucie Brock-Broido read her poem "You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World," from Stay, Illusion at the National Book Award Finalists' reading (~3 min).

Whitney Houston performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" on January 27, 1991. (We recorded the fact-check for this episode 33 years to the day from that performance!) Watch Whitney sing it here. And then watch Cher's rendition here.

The Friends episode "The One with the Joke" aired Jan 13, 2000 in Season 6, Episode 12. You can watch the clip we reference here (~4 min).

Poems by Laura Riding Jackson we quote from include:
"The World and I"
"The Spring Has Many Silences"
"Voices"
Listen to Laura Riding Jackson read her poems at the U. of Florida in 1975  (~30 min).

Poems by Jack Spicer we quote from include:
"Helen: A Revision"
"Concord Hymn"
"A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958"
Just for fun, check out this fabulous reading of Spicer's "For Mac," read by CA Conrad (~2 min). The last line is utterly devastating.

Here's a compilation of Sandra stealing the scenes of 227 with just one word: MARY.