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All right.

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Here's another angry poem.

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So I work in Midtown Manhattan.

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And I write on my lunch
break as did Frank O'Hara.

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So there's a noble tradition.

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So you can imagine a
slightly tired and pissed off

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lesbian version of Frank O'Hare.

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War on The Lunch Break.

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What's war?

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You're not able to find the
other dark pearl earring,

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and you don't really care except
that earring is your brother.

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He's dead.

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And there was only one.

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You'll never see him again.

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What's war?

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eternal countrylessness
Lady poets writing about

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cock not thinking about gender.

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My friends married in Vegas
to good old boys or hipster

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drummers just because they can.

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Or when I contemplate starving
myself, so I'd be the bomb,

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or I'm sorry, I keep
tossing and turning.

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My livelihood here
depends on people

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who've never tasted
war and act offended

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when one leaves work on time.

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Nor did I ever lay
hiding dying in a ditch.

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But if I had, I think that
I'd know much about dry grass.

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The incredible value of it
just to see the stalks move

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would be enough.

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I'd like to have
time to type this.

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But all day long they're
looking over my shoulder.

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I do feel sorry for them.

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What's it like to care so much?

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Talk morning and night
to a proctored God.

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Tidier toy box before bed to
get degrees have interests.

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Is that the anti-war?

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Is that why I can't even read?

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I know there's
war all around me.

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And inside there's war.

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Who died?

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Who cheated?

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When will she look
at me like that?

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What language is this?

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I hope no one breaks
in and rapes us.

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I never see sunlight.

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The sun in the yard is so
contentless it almost heals.

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It is a series of chambers
where I'm shown what I do have.

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Weight, electricity,
a sense of balance.

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Can that be enough?

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I don't know how to end this.

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A fade out on the grass.

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A cop out.

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Something a sexy girl poet
would say like the terrorists

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have won kiss me awake.

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Encore cock her boots
show us your boobs.

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I'm so fucking tired of the
sound of sexy of me being sexy

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muse body with ship launch face.

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I can't read because I'm dying.

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That's the truth I'd rather
take in the sunlight like a dog.

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You theorize your own way
out of this paper bag.

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What's war?

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This.

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I feel the sunlight,
but I keep asking why.

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