Somewhere In Advance Of Nowhere (High Risk Books)

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Imprint: Serpent’s Tail (May 01, 1996)
Poetry, Paperback, 124 pages
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
ISBN: 9781852424220
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    PoetryIn fact
    poetry
    will not
    strike
    lightning
    through
    any
    convoy of chickensToday poems are like flags
    flying on liquor store roof
    poems are like baboons
    waiting to be fed by tourists& does it matter
    how many metaphors
    reach out to you
    when the sun
    goes down like
    a stuffed bird in
    tropical forest
    of your solitudeIn fact
    poetry
    will not
    sing jazz
    through
    constricted mouth
    of an anteater
    no matter how many
    symbols survive
    to see the moon
    dying in saw dust
    of your toenail
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