Like Jimmy Cagney

Stephen Kuusisto, Letters to Borges

A crow struts across the wet lawn

Like Jimmy Cagney

And I think

My students

Know nothing

Of old movies

 

Beads of rain

Fall from maples

Hallelujah!

How easy to be

Happy about nothing

Good—

there will be so much of it

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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