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Let me slip in a couple of
short poems if I can find any.

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This is called "Page
from the Koran."

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A small vellum
environment, overrun

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by black scorpions of Kufic
script, their ranks all trigger

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tail and gold vowel
sac, at auction

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this mild winter morning
went for 600 Swiss francs.

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By noon fire from the same blue
heavens had hath erased Beirut.

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Allah be praised, it
said on crude handbills,

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for guns and Nazarenes to shoot.

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How gladly with proper
words, said Wallace Stevens,

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the soldier dies or kills.

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God's very word then stung
the heart to greed and rancor.

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Yet not where the last
glow touches one spare man

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inked in against his minaret.

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Letters so handled,
they are life and hurt,

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leaving the scribe immune.

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