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Here's another prose poem.

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I sometimes introduce this
as my one confessional poem.

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Although maybe now that
I have that Prague poem,

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there are two.

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It's called, "My Mother
and Steven Seagal

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Share the Same Birthday."

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"And yet a PAC commercial
would never wake my mother

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from an amnesic fog.

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My mother would
never find herself

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in the living room of
a farmhouse watching

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a candidate for the US
Senate making teleprompter

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promises, each promise
punctuated with the tag phrase,

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you can take that to the bank.

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And my mother would
never suddenly remember

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that this candidate had years
ago orchestrated a hit on her,

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had nearly killed
her, had probably

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thought he had killed her.

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And my mother's eyes
would never narrow.

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And she would not then
say, she would never say,

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I'll take you to the bank,
Senator, the blood bank."

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[CHUCKLING]

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