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This key doesn't fit in any lock,
This peg won't slide into holes in the block;
This actor's miscast in every play,
This dithery pilot has lost his..
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For collateral he left behind,
In my possession,
His future life, stamped and preapproved
With a boilerplate letter of commendation
Portfolioed fi..
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It only takes a minuscule seed
To begin this process.
Obey dipolar laws if you can,
And extend the arms hexagonally,
Though sometimes a meteorolog..
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He waits for things to come to him;
They sometimes do, but only words
In halting, syncopated beats,
And never people or flightless birds,
And no m..
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There are times when I enter
A lavender daze
And the tumbleweeds bebop
Around in my brain
As the plot for some novel
Clatters down through the ma..
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In the midst of the sturdiest peace,
Hotheads find pretexts for war.
Is it pride, or boredom,
Or simple insanity
That drives these thugs,
With th..
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Flaubert is a genius of the particular;
Obsessive in his quest for exactitude,
Whether gallery-gazing in Fontainebleau
Or probing Carthaginian cult..
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There is a place of partial shade
Along a woody colonnade
Of maple, river birch, and oak,
Where sparrows dart and spybirds croak.
I sing to bees..
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Encompassed by acres of ragtag nature--
Irreproducible uncaged chaos--
Alien tombs enshrine the Art
Of a most industrial ilk.
Laylighted boxes of ..
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All those who do not fit in well
Get scrap-heaped by eternity;
A grim determination, but
The uncompliant truth.
They flick by in some jumpy frames..
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