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Now I'm going to read
a group of three poems.

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They don't precisely
fit together.

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But I think of them
as belonging together.

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The first to come
from riding buses.

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Not city buses, but buses
out in the countryside.

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And the third seems to me
in a similar style anyway.

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I rode the bus today
from Phoenix over here

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and tried to keep my eyes
open in case I saw something.

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But it was very pretty.

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I don't mean that.

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But in case I saw
something, I might

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be able to write about
since buses seemed

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to me very good
for producing poems

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and much better than airplanes.

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But I fell asleep and
didn't even dream.

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So no poem today.

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Anyway, the first is
called Unflushed Urinals.

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And the lines were written
in the Omaha bus station.

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But I suppose might have
been written in many bus

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stations in this country.

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Seeing them, that is
the unpledged urinals.

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Seeing them, I
recognize the contempt

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some men have for themselves.

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This man, for instance,
zipping quickly up head

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turned like a bystander
innocent of his own piss.

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And here comes one to repair
himself with the mirror,

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padding down damp sparse hairs
suspiciously still black.

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Poor bantam cock of a man
jaunty at 1:00 AM perfumed

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undiscourageable.

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Oh, the saintly forbearance
of these mirrors.

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The acceptingness
of the wash bowls

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in which we absolve ourselves.