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It is undeniable,
when in the embrace of the great pipe organ
At the
venerable old Episcopal church on Third Street,
Or wholly
encircled ..
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It is
decommissioned, off-limits, outright verboten,
Yet is traversed
nonetheless,
Its patrons a
mix of the pruriently curious,
The
t..
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Bovine-like,
we shall meet our deaths
(Such is the
scythe the reaper wields)
No matter that
the final breaths
Come in
stockyards or p..
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They fall upon us over the spillways of time,
Burbling at us through some Radio Free
Nostalgia
Courtesy of some college station sitting at
..
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If you put the question to,
say, one Ben Haramed,
He would, as befits a wily
old desert jackal,
Find such notions of faith
and fidelity ..
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We’d make the
journey, Hannibal-esque in nature,
Either on foot
(even on the most dogged of the dog days
When the
antidiluvian tar ..
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There was, every spring, a new batch of pups,
Yipping, nipping, clumsy balls of nappy fur,
Looking for all the world like speckled tennis
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They
walk--no, more likely, they saunter,
Embassy
functionaries, associate profs at G-Dub,
A smorgasbord of polka dots and vitae,
Leopa..
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Tanks roll
Implacably;
Radio Free Europe
plays “On Broadway”, ode to pawnshops,
pimps, w****s.
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She slumped by the archway of the chapel,
Forlorn, beaten in fact;
She had come to these grounds from Plattsburgh,
(Cold, martial little city..
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