Thursday, September 16, 2004

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COMING BACK, OR LET'S GET BACK TOGETHER POEMS

Fort-da
Fort-da
Fort-da
Hike!

Insight
Insight
Insight. I am not afraid of you.
I am afraid of you.

I am feeling good
Therefore
I want to feel guilty now.

The category of mistakes
Is not abashed
To include human relations --
Some of them.

It also understands as part of its domain
Some spiteful demands
For separation. Go away,
Stay. Go away, stay. Perhaps this one
Experienced abandonment,
That one was loved all too well.

Fireworks -- you know
The explosion is coming,
You scan the sky for a white sheet.