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Because that is my home,
Where I know myself best:
In the frigid rigidity
Of the chiller chest,
Down in the lightless
And soundless deeps,
Insul..
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O my poor soles,
All bruised and blistered,
Sore and smarting,
Flaking, fissured,
From peeling heels
To crowded toes
With dagger-nails
That cut..
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Dual chevrons merge to form
One arrowhead;
This sign implies a change of direction,
A course correction,
A heading unheralded, unsuspected,
Withh..
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The whole wide world has become his prison.
He spends days commuting between park benches
And nights lightly dozing while wadded up,
Grass-padded p..
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We slink to the doctor every year;
He listens minutely through stethoscopes
And snarls of electrodes,
Straining to hear the surefooted stomp
Of de..
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A house with no mirrors
Will famish an ego;
The soul must provide for
Its issue alone.
The nurturing juices
Of deep understanding
Will not be fo..
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Achy diarthroses, rebellious adductors,
Nerves all a-whack--inconstant conductors--
Twitchy obliques, epidermis afire . . .
Antithesis of pleasure ..
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My new dentist longs
To chisel my jaw
And cap off a tooth.
The old one admired
My imperfections,
Omitted the obvious
Ploys to straighten
Or bri..
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There's no redemption for this bed:
The sheets are thin, the blood soaks through,
For here I chafe and here I bleed,
Where dust mites congregate an..
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Old grandfather elm,
Stately tree,
That extends its limbs
Harmoniously,
Shaded us
For years in the past,
Shielded us
From the solar blast,
Wil..
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