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All these poems are
depressing, but there

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are going to be a good
ones, make you happy later.

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Poem about a homeless man I see
outside my office quite a lot.

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It's called "A Sign."

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"He pours whiskey on time,
making a home in sleep.

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One wall is enough for his back.

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Yesterday's paper
makes for a ceiling.

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Life is postponed for now.

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But the ghosts still
roaming his past

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are always on time, panting.

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Every moment is an open
grave, a window to be shut.

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He quarrels with the void.

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He's mad, the passersby think.

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He places an ear to the ground.

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More graves are being dug.

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Ghosts will wave
from newspapers.

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He runs away, leaving the piece
of cardboard on the ground.

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It reads, Gulf War veteran."