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For Philip Booth
For twenty years now I've been learning how not to write Lines like Nebraska's by talking away a ditty Every day simply for the sake of my own sounding- But got so soaked at it once was a man shaken Awake by the Law in that flat State, jerked up to see What Elizabeth Bishop found on a fish she held Out of water just a little bit too damned long For my Muse. Remembering that bow as if it were Still inland, I wanted to say thanks for the mirages.