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RICH TEXAN

Do I know what that is? I grew up running track
Practice across Kykuit (where they filmed
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, impulse
To look up ‘midsummer’ on google turns into
A moment with the dictionary, it means
Solstice or maybe the middle of summer or
Even possibly any evening in May, when
Did I turn into Gerald Burns, and is my
Tendency to drift from the subject the reason
What I saw in him that made me fear
And dislike his work? Max knew him
And thought of him as a language poet,
Southern Methodist University is one thing)
But I never positively id’d a single Rockefeller.