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This is a poem I
wrote for the poet

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Roderick Hjalmar who
had coronary bypass

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surgery last year.

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It's called coronary
bypass for Rod.

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So now they've made a
detour to your heart, routed

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the blood like traffic through
a different place past derelict

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scenery some call
inner landscape.

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Those aging monuments
of bone and muscle.

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Old friend they've primed
your pump to beat its iom's

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out for years.

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Next week you'll write of
tulips on the windowsill, heart

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shaped and red and
drunk with oxygen.

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