P oetry R epair S hop 1999.09:100
- CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POETRY
- by new, emerging, and established poets

WALT PHILLIPS
Sequel and Prelude
 
wearing only shirts
they groveled
the pans of stones
were heated
big ugly head watched
with the usual
lack of passion
it is the children
that bothers me most
said white-hair
i can dismiss the rest
what a warped place
said the secretary
the morning was already
older than the dreams
lunatics frequently
try to give away

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