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Broken Thumb
Broken Thumb   Things of my world, thwart, solid, chockablock, That I was wont lightly to wield and dandle, Now, button-bungler, fool of lid, latch, lock, Thumbfoundered, I must own you all too much to handle. With dexter maladroit sadly at outs, Unruly …
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Old Song
Old Song Praised be friends. Praise enemies. Praise the dark above. Praise hangovers. Praise cigarettes. The vulture and the dove. Praise all music. Praise the harp. And the amplifier’s buzz. Praise the days we’d live forever. And loneliness. And love. …
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An Interview with Nadine Gordimer
… to you. Like the love relationships in your life. Then comes friendships and then looming large—if you’re alive at … it in my own books which are written from many different points of view, very different personae, first person as a … I knew. And so obviously Julian, he’s now seeing people die around him, he’s conscious of birth, life, and death, …
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State
… by the tip of the fingers too many dead O., order the animals with your song go on back to a state of nature we are … drink on Sunday because overlords we can drink till the sun comes up on fire over the mountain the edge of the state of mercy how many guns the state controls where my baby can die if a man rapes me where I can wear my weapon in the open …
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Song for a Kiss
… of her kiss when the days dragged themselves like doomed soldiers through the Delta. Towns dying, blacks and whites … were set to rumble in downtown McCrory. The Bloods were coming from Little Rock, the Klansmen from the Ozarks. This …
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R.I.P.
… visions, but everything was put right when mom said “come on home, I want to care for you,” left the house and … by drink sang while removing the shrapnel from a soldier recovered from the Spanish flu returned to Poland all … happy celebrated by all in life before dying contented in a comfortable bed 211-213 By Jennifer Moxley …
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