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Here's a poem you
can't applaud for.

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This is a poem written at a
time of total self contempt.

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Not total, if it were total
I couldn't write the poem.

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Entry: Today I did nothing.

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I got up, ran a few miles,
took note of the dead squirrels

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and leaves on the
birches turning

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disgracefully yellow in August.

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Then I sat on my hands,
rested my exhausted body,

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watched the weeds
through the window.

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I'm not proud of this.

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I'm not proud of anything.

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Like the man who bought
too much at the market,

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I want to take everything back,
the hours without solitude,

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the moments of kindness, come to
so much change in the pockets.

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It's a cold summer night
more stars than sky.

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I can think clearly tonight.

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I light a cigarette and sit
back in my chair wondering

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where is there left to advance.

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I run my hand through my hair
and watch the circular moon

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pull itself out of the
Earth just like yesterday

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and the day before.

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Only it pales in
its diminishment.

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The apple devoured
a sliver at a time.

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