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Poem.

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Do they write poems when
they have something to say,

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something to think about?

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Robbed from the
world's hard rubbing

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and the excess of every day.

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The summer I was 24 in San
Francisco, you and I were gay.

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The whole summer seemed
like a cable car ride

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over the gold Bay.

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But once in a bistro,
angry at one another

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we quarreled about a taxi fare.

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I doubt that it was the
fare we quarreled about,

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but one excuse is
as good as another

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in the excess of passion and
the need to be worn away.

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Do they know what is
cleanliness of skin,

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firmness of flesh that matters?

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It is so difficult to
look at the deprived

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or smell their decay.

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But now I am among them.

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I too I'm a leper, a warning.

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I hold out my crippled fingers.

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My voice flatters
everyone who comes

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this way in the weeds of
mourning, groaning and gnashing.

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I display myself in malodorous
comic wrappings and tatters

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and the excess of passion
and the need to be worn away.

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