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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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My parents worked with aeronauts;
They peregrinated everywhere,
And took me with them east and west
On flights across this continent,
Across the s..
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Lord, how Miller could fulminate,
Decry his low station in life, then profess
Not to care--a lesson that I should heed?
His relentless whine,
Even..
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There's a candidate out there
In the field
Whose name, like that
Of Rowling's villain,
I cannot bear to hear or speak:
I call him Frump.
Far mor..
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Helene was my mother's name . . .
And now a likewise-aliased storm
Is wheeling across the Gulf in her honor,
Or so I'd like to believe.
Independen..
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