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What will be the fate of this smug little poem?
Will it claw its way into
a reputable tome,
Or languish forever,
encrusted in dust
Li..
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Up at Sky Meadows
We sweated through our circuit,
Uphill and down, of four-plus miles.
A refreshing ripple, a clear-sky draft
Breezed across the..
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If you write and revise,
And in doing so, recycle
Your rough and rouged drafts,
Beware! Be sure to shred those pages,
Lest some friend--a fiend
..
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I come across death at every turn:
Two squirrels today, and four birds.
It's been raining a lot--is that the cause?
Friends say their friends are..
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The cicadas expertly play
Nature's glass harmonica:
One sustained note,
A summation of their sexuality
Without climax;
A month-long melodeon reci..
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"You look young for your age,"
Said the impersonal stranger
Writing from his postcard stronghold
In the cybernaut dimension.
Age not withstanding,..
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There was little time to devote to reflection
As we stared at the stone that bears his name
On the verdant hill above the river.
We had toured his ..
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As if time's dominion was ever in doubt,
See how in a lifespan three wracks came about:
First Seneca's Sentinel tumbled down;
Next, Wall Arch colla..
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I just met one man of my dreams--
I say "one" for I have multifarious dreams--
Who is bright and bold and articulate,
Worldly, industrious, and n..
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One sot says to his fellow sot:
"Why don't they love us? Another shot!"
The second then says to sot the first:
"Damn our vile and unquenchable thir..
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