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From Sawbuck: Apparition Poem #1617
From Sawbuck: Apparition Poem #1617
3 poems
from Apparition Poems
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#509
There are gusty showers
...in Philadelphia, showers
that beat up empty lots,
down in sooty Kensington,
...you could almost believe
what the books say about
being-in-the-world, I mean
...being in a damned world, it
really does seem that way
on greasy days in Philadelphia.
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#571
Of course, there had to be
a pretty nurse this one was
pale blonde, thin, always in
jeans, fat iron cross affixed
to breast-heavy chest. I
couldnt ignore eye-teeth
that made her look like a
vampire. In my pill-popped
dementia, I saw her kneel
beside my bed, swill blood
from my neck, nourish
herself on my sickness.
In swoons, a Christian
vampire seems no weirder
than enforced Twister,
watched Monopoly, or
face-painting forty-year-olds:
she fit right in. Thats the bin.
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