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The Sonnets: XLI

banging around in a cigarette      she isn’t “in love”

my dream a drink with Ira Hayes we discuss the code of the west

my hands make love to my body when my arms are around you

you never tell me your name

and I am forced to write “belly” when I mean “love”

Au revoir, scene!

I waken, read, write long letters and

wander restlessly when leaves are blowing

my dream a crumpled horn

in advance of the broken arm

she murmurs of signs to her fingers

weeps in the morning to waken so shackled with love

Not me. I like to beat people up.

My dream a white tree

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