Sometimes a poem beseeches me
Like a dog outside a Greek taverna—
I’m not kidding—she was real—
One eyed, limping,
Fighting to stay on her feet.
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Huck Finn and Ishmael—the two most trust worthy narrators
In American fiction…the rest want something from you.
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
—George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Something tells me I’ve given up on both…
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Of course I want to be loved and understood
But this is the lobster trap we call America baby….
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My father’s first job was to shovel snow off the railroad tracks.
He used to find bloody human teeth…
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D.H. Lawrence coughed out his heart.
