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A poem entitled “a poem needs a title like a story needs a tail”Look: / If mankind is a forest and you then a tree / then I am the one who stands sentry

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HallwayI wander down padded blue halls and hear cries / behind closed doors guarding our summer lies . / The boy outside with the gold hooped ear

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Missing BeatTo begin: a poem entitled “Lines to Serve as an Introduction to the Show, Written for the Lowest Common Denominator; Hastily Amended to Address our Pale Horse Future” / There are no literary devices in this poem / no simile, no apostrophe-

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The City in the WindowI can sit enveloped in this womb of a chair smoking / knowing that you would like the knowledge that I am / watching you asleep in our bed, watching the pulsing sway

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If Only a Poem SuitsIf only a poem will do and / I have no pen with which to / write then give me a needle

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WarIf war, you're telling me, is what makes a / man a man / and that you can dig out my insides and

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I Would be Amenable to ItIn seeing as dancers whirl eclectic, / and actors know parts better than / they know themselves (which, in either

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You To Me, As I To YouWinters folly does in spring create / in essences a dire, wily fool / who, speaking truth- a noble trait-

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Me, and HeI once had this friend, see / and I was as much him, as he me. / And we’d laugh, and cry and dodge the stars,

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