Found Poem In The Margins Of Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty With Gods

I buy most of my books in bookstores. When I do order a collection of poetry online, I tend to order the cheapest copy available. Not just to be frugal, or to take the most advantage of online shopping, but because many of these books come used, often by students who have filled the margins with notes.

These notes are usually Hella Basic. Which is fine. It might be their first time experiencing poetry. Or they were forced to take this class and have been told to take notes, but have no idea what parts of a poem are important. Or they are experts and their notes are well-researched and fascinating, and drive me to explore more.

The copy of Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty With Gods that I received was Hella Basic.  But without me having to do any editing, they produced a poem I quite like. These are the notes with the linebreaks, punctuation, and capitalization as they appeared in the book. Stanza breaks occur when there are many notes for one poem, although there are some stanzas that represent several poems, which only had one note in them.

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A Young Reader's Guide To Yusef Komunyakaa's
Talking Dirty With Gods, As Written By A Young Reader

Beastly man
Virgin huntress
legend that
Judas in the Bible
hanged himself on.
He stands for a betrayer
-a skinning knife
monster made of different parts
God of doors that had 2 heads
formalist - relation to title?
sociological - sum up main points?
painting
river of the dead
shorebird
not too
high,
not too
low
consequences of childlike behavior --> (indecipherable)
copy animal's abilities

-King of the gods
-cares
-makes himself
off as the victim
-entertainer
ladies man
promotes
peace
promotes 
social
interaction
-fire center of attention
-large disastrous fire
-trickster
-player
-used many disgui - bull 
                                            sheperd
                                            eagle
Zeus = Jupiter
-singing
-thrumming
-playful
flirtation
-goddess of
marriage
wife of
Zeus

-twins raised
by wolves & are
the founders of
the city of ROME
-nipples
-a museum in flame
}we start believing
our lies
<strike>he gets aroused</strike>
-act of having weight
Romulus
kills
Remus
to her children

necrophilius
DEAD
:City of the dead
city
Museum
b/c that's where
all the artifacts
are: The sarcophagi
vials of ash, etc.
-b/c its the
city of angels
wealth, <strike>& business</strike>
is busy
-partial shadow <strike>+ an eclipse</strike>
-egyptian god <strike>the end</strike>
of the afterlife/death
-a stone coffin
-EARLY ARCheologists

-a sailor that was always drunk
traitor
-A faun-like God
of sheep & flock.
He was <strike>in</strike> linked to
God of <strike>Isis</strike> Thionisis
Also known as the one
that discovered music
Greek God
Of Lust
[He made people fall
in love (like Cupid)]

- you are in
on it. you're
part of the
process
-a poet
-crazy love
-------difficult to define
<strike>rampant</strike>
}He wAs pAn
being moved on
-a RiveR
(no control)
a handsome,
seductive, jealous
maRRied man
a nobleman
frequently
in love affairs.
(mAnwhoRe)

-wishes
-intimacy
-touch - sexual
---longing
---dry
die > obstacle
He desires
For her to
speak Of
him
intimately
--wants 
to hear her
say his
name
-obsession
--battle

             ?

-Killing
of Babies
​-mostly women
female Babies
T: women try to escape
the fate lives they live
---out of the dead
curled milk - sour

action of having sex
-action of having sex
-engage from 
-past...upbringing
crazy?
sounds? of sex?
-condom?
-cum?
-virgin?
-dildo?
-porn?
-
- Americans - open to sex
non-Americans-closed
-sexual implication
-pain reliever
-enjoying
-pleasure

pain of last love
death connotations,
sin + temptation?
-->demon in the form
of a man (indecipherable) woman
to seduce one in dreams
-not 1st time!
-->not pleasant
-->familiar scent
-->sex, intimacy
}bold but
afraid
-abusive
sun
]
-->actress, model
50s & 60s
-->art of
Dadaism --.
Surrealism
-improper
-
most
evil
time
(opposite
3pm -
most
holy)
--?
-->soul, (indecipherable)
--inability to move on
-->dirty
doves in chimney
creator of
-trap
-found in chimney
-->fire, burning,
escape, 
dirty

secretive
sneaky
Traditional
spAnish.
Remedies
-old person
or
old ways
CHIldren 
or
meN