In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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We too are ashes as we watch and hear The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise, Of one whose promised thoughts of other days, Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed, The service record of his youth wiped out, His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.Karl Shapiro
I see slip to the curb the long machines, Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette, Shellacked with silk and light, The hard legs of our women.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air, Sees down the street, And in the camera of my eye depicts, Row-houses and row-lives Glass after glass, door after door the same.
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