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Those who don't look, don't really see,
And we--enthralled by introvert reveries,
Hunched over scry-plate palmistries,
Ears, eyes, even noses rig..
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I get up in the morning and execute
My daily plod:
Gym, library, store,
More of less in that order.
Back home I cook, I eat, I scribble-scratch,
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With expectant expressions they twirl in place
And look up at us, the senior race;
Despite minders' coo-calls and reprimands,
They bang on the glas..
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When turbulence reaches a flu-fever pitch,
And neighbor stabs neighbor with toxic barbs;
When anger replaces cool counter-talk,
How can we as natio..
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I will always accept the rain;
I will never regret it.
It heals the wounds of dereliction,
Those droughts of spirit that rot our integrity,
Brou..
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Amorosia, long-lost city of love,
I searched for you, stumbling through rain-riddled labyrinths,
Through informal gardens of litter and lorikeets,..
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How I got up here, I really don't know--
I hate heights; belvederes and escarpments unnerve me.
Maybe I sleepwalk? That would explain it.
One morni..
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Desolation was my frame of mind--
Je suis désolé as the Frenchman said;
I was my own lethal kiss of death,
Scoring zero all over, a..
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Sifting through sand, panning for gold;
The process is endless.
The process seems aimless.
Fumbling in darkness, lightheaded and droll,
Inconsolab..
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A man with withered arms
Assaulted the triceps machine
With pile-driving vigor.
His clangor betokened warfare
Against a wasting condition,
An aff..
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