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My art is life and nowhere else
the poems are barely incomplete
try reading one and find
too obvious a rhyme
memory unknowably self-repressed
rhythm climbing with a broken leg or
a thought ambivalent and unkind
that none are finished is lucky for old age
imagine too old write something new
all the done poems got a pat on the back
that’s not for revision like this one needs
art touched with life.