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The Masque of Rhyme, these are--

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Charles Alexander
has very wonderfully

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made little chap books of this
poem I wrote four days ago,

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and they're signed too.

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So I got writer's cramp
signing them, but--

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so this is pushing rhyme and
seeing what would come of that.

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Adding my pee to
the sea of rhyme,

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it's time I admit sameness
is a bit of a hoax.

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Yes, my body lies over social
oceans like yours and slightly

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like Rover's, except
that he barks to speak

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and we speak to bargain
and intermingle.

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All translation in
love and war, did you

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hear the joke about the
marriage of true mind

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to impediment after impediment?

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That's what we call language,
at least around here.

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What rhymes with rhythm, mythic?

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You have to squint to hear
it, squint and scatter letters

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to the five senses, shake off
circumstance and find yourself

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in words, squatting
amid ashes, while

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the wicked affluent
legislators dress for the ball.

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Your feet ache and
stink, the thought track

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wakes and thinks novelty
again, the same old novelty.

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It's almost worse than royalty.

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My biographical foot in the
glass shoe, fate or Deja Vu.

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The rhythm of days
produces chills, stupor,

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and after considerable training,
a bunch of personal pronouns.

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It's Thursday, history--
history's late as usual.

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Meanwhile, some
sexual traffic jam

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has been goading us all
into public revelation.

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Offstage, fact, slapped value on
the butt, and said, break a leg,

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make a killing, show those
suckers where to suck.

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And value answered:
don't be vulgar, fact,

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unless you're
speaking personally.

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As for me where the
bee sucks, there

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suck I a meaner, a be-er,
an arriviste tooling down

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that divided highway leading
where none they say ever

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returns.

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And when I don't
come back, say I

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told you everything about
myself except the future,

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lie alone in our
bed of roses whence

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they say poems arise to
amuse the students when we've

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gone to prose.

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It's more tangled, but you
hear those stuck horns blaring.

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That's been my cue ever
since I can remember.

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