862 5 4
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Fat, religious, full of himself,
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53 9 8
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The twenties//
were stylishly Modern- Tom with his/
Fisher King and Corbu with his house/
for the brother of Gertrude Stein.
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786 2 2
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I don't mind the Silence of the Lambs
so much.
It's the silence of the library
That bothers me.
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64 12 11
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No second printing, the first being an ample supply.
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1379 7 6
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I’m supposed to be writing poems but it’s Saturday morning and I’m watching cartoons.
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107 19 15
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Six of them pecked and scratched/
something at their center/
in the middle of Virginia’s lawn—
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98 14 11
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I see you in sleep,/
the sands of rememberance collecting/
in the corners of my eyes.
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1 0 0
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1163 10 5
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I like it best when I wake up
And the wild rain of dreaming ends.
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944 4 3
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I had the blues. I was feeling down the day the circus came to town. There was cash in my pocket and a bag of weed. I went to the circus with a desperate need to renew my faith in the good of mankind. Perhaps under the big top some laughs I’d find.
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71 9 8
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the last frost of spring. Replant
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57 6 6
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Another abandoned comsat falls/
in a fiery arc that no one notices.
|
1009 1 2
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Old scars at night burn hot and bright
Deep in her heart in Texas
She rides around with the ragtop down
Driving her brand new Lexus
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140 13 8
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You were sophisticated in a way I/
didn’t understand but coveted.
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913 5 4
|
I flipped a large cardboard coin
On one side it said
Abundance
But on the other side it said
Scarcity
I went to the store
And began packing everything I could get
Into my shopping cart
But the things that started spilling over
Onto the
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