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CABARET EPITHALAMION

We spend the day in the lab
Syllables of fatherhood
Are our ballads of taking
Care and rhyme is a murder
On the radio

Silence at the steak house

Silence is a practice homer
A cigar in the distance
A hero of our time
good
spirit
Is nearly enough I told you
I can’t stay numbness
Dr Pepper curly hair Ron
Superior
The pool balls fall
Into the tray

The boundaries of my love
Are a single page
Storage
Except when they take away
Your baby pictures
For
Non-payment
is a good

I want to cry “All right”
Knowing where she is

To be the spine
I hate that
I love
Bookstores they imply a huge
Range of possible experience

But to be
at the movies
That's all right if you
Don't have time to leaflet

Gospel

You have an appointment with
Death I read on my way to
Mona's a woman in a white
Shawl across the street from
The Iglesia de Dios on Ave B
In case you want on a summer
Thursday to go hear guitar

I read it through
Bible Helps
Amos Lehigh Editor PO Box
391 Hanover PA 17331 USA
In
Case you want to hear the
Dr Brown office upstairs
Story
The last sentence reads
Friend will it be a home
"Upstairs" for you
The text
Is set cleanly in a sans
Looks like Futura Book

Sailors of old
of old
of old
Reported occasionally
The sudden change in the
Water in the sun no
An island
Rising
and sometimes later
Explorers imagined they must
Have meant a whale
a mirage
a
Pedant would say calenture
And then it couldn't be a
Wedding poem
epithalamion
Olympic leap presidential
Poetry projects live to turn
Us to ourselves as something
New or something
of old
of old
And in this business year
I dropped
One hundred envelopes

Color separations of a lily,
Show us around