About Rick Bursky and Conduit

Today's poem is "Assume Everything I Say Is True"

from Conduit

Rick Bursky lives in Los Angeles. His most recent book, Let's Become a Ghost Story, is out from BOA Editions. His previous book, I'm No Longer Troubled by The Extravagance, is also from BOA Editions. He teaches poetry for The Writers' Program at UCLA Extension.
Other poems by Rick Bursky in Verse Daily:
October 22, 2020: "The Scaffolding" "When I left home, all I took was a window..."
October 6, 2015: "Instead" "We taught our horses to be wild, our dogs to shoot guns...."
March 21, 2012: "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" "A fleshless man doesn't need much...."
December 4, 2010: "The Mandolin" "This was the night police chased the musicians from the roof...."
Books by Rick Bursky:

Other poems on the web by Rick Bursky:
Six poems
Three poems
"The Aerodynamics"
"Pomegranates"
Three poems
"This Is Yours"
Rick Bursky's Website.
Rick Bursky on Twitter.
About Conduit:

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Other poems by Conduit in Verse Daily:
September 14, 2022: "Assume Everything I Say Is True" by Dan Rosenberg
September 13, 2022: "The Stapler" by Dan Rosenberg
July 14, 2021: "How to Predict the Future" by Rick Bursky
June 28, 2021: "A Little Bit Rain" by Melissa Studdard
April 16, 2020: "Minotaur's Love Song" by Avni Vyas
April 15, 2020: "Georges Gilles de la Tourrette" by David Welch
April 13, 2020: "We the Jury" by Wayne Miller
September 18, 2019: "On Days I Don't Hate My Job" by Carrie Shipers
September 17, 2019: "Fantastic Voyage" by Nikki Wallschlaeger
September 16, 2019: "Carnivorous" by Sandra Simonds
November 17, 2016: "A Marxist interpretation of rivers" by Bob Hicok
November 15, 2016: "Ian's House" by James Haug
September 30 2015: "Radiant Reflection" by Matt Hart
March 20, 2015: "Fourth Ballad from the Labyrinth" by Paula Cisewski
March 18, 2015: "Wonderful" by Avni Vyas
March 17, 2015: "My Life as a Hummer" by Terrance Hayes
July 29, 2013: "Ha Ha Unicorns" by Eileen G'Sell
July 25, 2013: "This World" by Oni Buchanan
July 23, 2013: "It's Here In The" by Russell Atkins
July 22, 2013: "The Distant Future" by C.J. Sage
August 16, 2012: "Landscape with Rain and Glass" by Terence Winch
August 8, 2012: "The Ocean" by Dorothea Lasky
August 7, 2012: "Bowlful of Teeth" by John Beer
August 6, 2012: "The Platitudes" by Terence Winch
October 24, 2011: "North of North" by Bob Hicok
October 22, 2011: "Oracle" by Dean Young
October 20, 2011: "What the Mapmaker Knows" by Mary Jo Bang
October 19, 2011: "Anthem" by Michael Robins
October 18, 2011: "For Soren" by Matt Hart
October 18, 2010: "Penny Pincher Leaves Millions" by Mark Bibbins
October 17, 2010: "That Kind of Party" by Patrick Swaney
October 15, 2010: "Ode to Autumn" by Susan Browne
May 30, 2009: "The Terrible Poem" by Dara Wier
May 28, 2009: "The Match" by Carley Moore
May 26, 2009: "asunder" by Craig Arnold
May 25, 2009: "Moving day" by Bob Hicok
May 25, 2008: "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer
May 22, 2008: "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay
May 19, 2008: "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze
April 27, 2008: "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot
April 26, 2008: "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown
April 25, 2008: "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin

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