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I
read about chimpanzees
sending
out advance scouts
just
like we humans do in wars,
and
although nature collects..
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I'm
reading it in a magazine so
I
don't know if the news
is
an infant or middle-aged.
My
sigh belongs to an octogenarian
borrow..
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I likely died a little
last night;
the
effects of alcohol
on the
human body are immense.
And I
wonder if last night
..
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They
arrive a swarm of locusts intent
on
bare stripping what is there, unmasking
board,
house defenseless ..
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Truly
magnificent is this old frame
hand
carved from some dark wood,
not
overly large, the size
of
the Mona Lisa, but emp..
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"Shirley,
Shirley Bo-ber-ley"
The
flaw in the name game
is
to play you must first
remember
a name. I meant
to
writ..
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Alexis playing softjazzas
I write; it's hard
not
to go crazy, melt
into
the invisible,
become
something similar
..
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***
Every
other step
brings
a puff of white
from
his lips, lunch pail
bangs
against his thigh, heavy
black
boots an..
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***
Outside
my twin glass doors,
the
zinnias and marigolds
are
freezing, bareheaded and
shivering,
wearing frost like
w..
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Jackson
Browne lived upstairs;
we
don't know who lived below
the
original eagle, the one taking notes
to
keys and to w..
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