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EXECUTION ERRORS

San Diego sits there
Doing something like zazen
Or kaddish or weeding
Or smoking wedding cheering
Swinging for the fences God I love it
And not only for the Navy
Which so much in me
I never learned to swim.

But that’s another order of Chinese
In Hillsdale and tonight I feel
Like owning a car, after all,
And all the compromise that entails
Or begets, when I see you from the back
I totally lose track of my
Vocabulary, beeble eeble bop do ba-bump.