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They race, they race,
Like meteors launched from a cavernous place;
Across the lawn, across the street--
No one else here has fleeter feet!
Here c..
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Perfection lasts only as long
As the breeze allows you to have it.
Arriving on a whim,
Too soon it wafts away.
A greediness arises
That surpasses..
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Monsieur is drawing on the window:
Hot pink hearts and lipstick kisses,
With red Da Hong Pao burning through.
The message board chants LO E, LO E, ..
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To hell with pleasure, to hell with pain,
To hell with getting soaked in the rain.
To hell with deleterious folk
Who crab and carp, then say it's a..
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There's a breeze slicing through
This suburban canyon,
And the sun is too hazy
To warm the flesh.
My gloves are ratty--
The stitches are loosenin..
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I never got the chance to meet
The master before he passed away. Should I regret
A thing that was impossible, given
That I am a nothing, a transpar..
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I don't mind the demotion.
I admit I'm the oddball
With the cockamoon orbit,
Sole ecliptical scoffer
And freak of the System;
But I like my condi..
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Those friends who second-fiddled you
For years as you sat rigidly
And martyr-like, while staying mum,
Or saying, "That's all right by me";
Those i..
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Not grand or glorious,
But mostly anonymous
And always autonomous
In a late afternoon.
These sideline activities
Engage my proclivities,
Overrid..
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The only love that I can give
Is plastic, artificial,
Thin as cardboard, bloodless, pale,
And borderline superficial.
You stand in nakedness and..
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