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Barton D Smock
Poems
Sep 2014
express purpose
i.
a child’s edition of your father. in which
the unused
scarecrow
is found
hiding
the *****
mags, the cigarettes
of a sister’s worry, and other
inanimate
markers
of accounting, meant to be
traded
for fireworks, for fat frogs
not given
to snake…
that is, had the boy
lived
to unsee
the water
he didn’t
make…
ii.
(my handle on death)
is holding
a book.
an overfilled
pauper’s
grave / transcends
its archaic
reference
to belly. all mothers
are single.
Written by
Barton D Smock
48/M/Columbus, Ohio
(48/M/Columbus, Ohio)
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