39 1 1
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“I’m holding your hand.
Yeah. Here I am,” she said.
She turned to look at us.
“He’s squeezing my hand.”
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5555
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I sat bathing in the sun.
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7022
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when you are feeling your ovaries
on both sides, rubbing them
to smooth out the necessity
of the future inside.
|
2300
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It’s that Power Voice
that so annoys us in cafés
or in a bar, saying,
Oysters?
You think I need oysters?
I don’t need no
stinking oysters.
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110424
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What
I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .
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5122
|
You can almost hear it
if you feel like
a homeless owl
|
1091118
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But God could tell that Adam was still not/
right with His world, alone as he was. Alone/
is fine for a Maker of Worlds but facsimiles/
are so much less than the Original.
|
137119
|
|
200
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Can any hobo with a beaver
become a tree-trimmer now?
|
96933
|
You read your fortune cookie:
|
3422
|
There is some Confucian wisdom about paper cuts
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123667
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Except where its waves break gently,/
white frothed and reassuring along the shore,
|
2711
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All my imaginary friends
are asleep at this hour
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89612
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I haven’t written a poem in months.
|
101011
|
They’re exhuming Pablo Neruda
To put his old bones to the test
Determine if he was murdered
At the Capitalists’ request.
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