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I want to dive downwards into the sky
Reflected in the emptiness
I hold in my hand:
Moody, brooding, laced with branches
That fracture the ribbony..
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They race like rabbits,
Too fast for an old hound
To keep apace.
Who'd want them, anyway?
Vapid in speech, idle in thought,
Plugged into devices,..
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I like how you run on the bending bikeway:
Erect, sure-footed, lean, and lost
In concentration, your pace never slacking,
Your heart pitter-patting..
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I seem to connect with
Children, crazy people, dogs.
What shared frequency is this,
What affinity,
That attracts the less articulate flocks,
That..
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I've had two brothers, neither related
To me or each other in any fashion.
One shy, retreating from sparse assemblies,
The second, exuberant beyond..
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Every morning I gaze at it,
The colorful map I've bleached and tinted
With denim shades of indigo.
And as I work--as I open a window,
Occlude a na..
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A humble man, a noble man
Whose election fell in the four-year caesura
Dividing the flagrant corruption and
The ponderous Hollywood vanity of
Two ..
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Which brings me back to
The unresolved question
For anyone with a delving mind:
What is my place in this pitiless world?
If not on the rostrum
Ha..
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I don't like attention, no how no way:
I shy from it, point to others and say,
"Talk to them, leave me the hell alone."
But I pay for the pleasure
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Lincoln has been proven wrong:
You can fool all the people
All of the time,
Or at least for staggered quadrenniums,
Fooled so deeply, so profoundl..
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