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Or not so… Invites me to wish you a way out… (perhaps that trip to the west coast?) Doug On 2013-04-30, at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > WHAT ENDS ME > > Trivial pursuits. > Telephones and lack of same. > Sleep that comes only unbidden > but, when it comes, does not refresh, > wakes me only to yesterday's slate skies > and the breakfast buffet of fears. > > Not even new fears but the same, > in squealing cycles: > the question of how to make it > from seven AM until it's time > to go, perhaps, to sleep. > > Welcome to the screen door on a windy night > that slams against the house at 3 AM > chipping paint > pounding wood to pulp > teasing me with clocklike rhythm, > a water torture that cannot cease > will not relent, > victim and victimizer locked > in an embrace neither can break. > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Something else is out there godamnit And I want to hear it C.D.Wright