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THE OP-ED PAGE

Briefly I consider writing a poem
Taking issue with the account in New York
Of the Swink reading at Pianos
But it was an event I didn't attend
And frankly, what do I care

If in some psychic dream
One of the lost babies appears
And is, to put it plainly, unattractive?
A common mistake of novice bicyclists
Is to sit up straight on a seat too wide

Every realm (o horrible word!) of public life
The scene of some corrupt leader's fix's
Apostrophe-irradiated blowout.
Lost me there. Think about coverage, or
As I put it elsewhere, air time,

If you want your reuptake inhibited.
..
..
When I sit down among the clovers
A few miles from the interstate.