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death poetry

why do you always stand there shivering
babylon-where i go dreaming
in new york harbor
my mother twines me roses wet with dew
for then without
while i stood listening, discreetly dumb
tripping up, falling down
suddenly, out of dark and leafy ways
the air is like a butterfly

 



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