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An Hour After Breakfast
He says, “I know your tricks, old woman. / You’re trying to starve me.” / Because he has forgotten, again, / that he has eaten.
August 2006Poetry
Selected Poems
Wounded like me, willing to talk, knowing / What a scarecrow cancer is, how people don’t / Want to linger near that kind of news, including / Friends who mean well, look away, act as if / They can’t hear, humming in their ear, “You’re / Human, human, human, you poor thing,
— from “Fellows”
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