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#68 - 1: Bless you, homeless and Hungry god -Let us write a poem about love. / Can we be holy? / When we love - do we become holy?
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Dec 18, 2011
#68 - 2: In Many Ways, the Heat is More Dangerous Than the ColdTry not to cry when you finally know / what I have envisioned with you / now a hundred times;
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Dec 18, 2011
#68 - 3: Can you spare some change?It's not hard. / Oh, let me try again - / it's not easy.
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Dec 18, 2011
A Birthday PoemHe loved it when she slid up / to him, as sweet as a sprinkle doughnut - / but now, something has befallen her,
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Sep 15, 2010
A Body in FloridaThrough his young belly as through mine, middling, / a bullet would tear equally smoothly. / But I am not in those photographs.
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Jun 19, 2018
A FeverSomething rattles in the soul. / It must be paid attention - / it is the soul, the only sure thing -
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May 10, 2018
An American Boy's Guide to Discovering Immortal LoveI sat in the old pool and let / the black algae sprout all over me. / I lay down and became soil for
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Apr 22, 2012
A Narrative About Crustaceanshistory - / a history - / I wanted to know what that sound was.
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Mar 28, 2012
AntibodiesI long to talk to a stranger and ask them: / " / Ever worry that,
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Mar 5, 2010
A Poem For Those Who Die Before a Bill Becomes a LawA bill becomes a law through a process not unlike wet clay curing in the sun, seasonal labor filling the fields in springtime, a drop of sweat absorbed thirstily into a towel, a stain spreading across a tablecloth. / A bill becomes a law eventually, but often, not in time. A bill often fails on the floor, as do some people, as does, just as often, / the attempt to revive them. The attempt looks an awful lot
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Aug 25, 2018
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