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FIVE REACTIONS TO BEING

 

Dover has its chalk cliffs but

so what.  Flip-flops belong on

some feet, but who decides on

names.  In Copenhagen no one

wears a gold star or everyone does.

The duck has a place in history.

You can get crushed in the front

rows of heavy metal.  Linger, please,

don’t go yet.  Look at my hands

carving air:  they love you.

A thunder head blows up in minutes.

Derelict heart.  Plant fingers here

now.  Lipsync heaven.

 

from The Gettysburg Review & Able, Baker, Charlie