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These new poems that I'm writing
are toward a third collection.

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And the collection seems
to be concerned with love

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and the perversions of
love, love that is thwarted,

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love that is frustrated
in some ways.

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The working title of
the collection is Needs.

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This is a poem called "Story of
the Man Who Is Never Invited,"

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and it's about someone who
is never invited to parties.

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"He walks in, his clothes
dark, the ramrod of his spine

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never more arrogant.

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He speaks and the women
move away from him

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as if his mouth were a wound.

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He shows his teeth and
the men see tombstones.

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But they think he's a
menace they can handle,

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they think they could throw
him out as they could one man.

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But he's every man who
has ever been omitted

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from any list, the vengeance
and just one of his arms

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could destroy a city.

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He pours himself a drink, cocks
his head as if ready to speak

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the underside of speech.

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By now they are
huddled in corners.

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He has dreamed of this moment,
dreamed of someone brave enough

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to embrace him,
wise enough to know

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he could be ruined by kindness.

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No one moves.

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He starts with
the lamps twisting

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them indistinguishable
from coat hangers.

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He shakes a man's hand until
it's a little white rubber

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glove.

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And all the while the
others are screaming,

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unaware of how
much he needs them,

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how much he would love them
if they knew how to stop him."

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