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Robert Rorabeck - Going Back To School

2014-10-29 3 Dailymotion

Strangeness of unaccounted numbers slithers <br />Through the unmowed grass, <br />Through another day of monsooning summer <br />Under the mobile of a smiling moon, <br /> <br />Thus the night pants with the rasping breathing <br />Of plagiarists and the dimming gentlemen in their <br />Unofficial meetings the next field over, <br /> <br />While the girls in the petticoats in love serve <br />Their bodies’ inebriate liquors to the unscarred <br />And untried men, <br /> <br />Where the trains are busy with their bodies’ long coils, <br />And the highways of unpaid and starving truckers, <br />Alongside which the state workers sleep safely for now <br />Married to lawyers, diamond wedding rings glistening <br />Like cut poisons on their dreaming fingers: <br /> <br />Thus, I write it down sucking the paper cut digits, <br />Alongside the infinite shore where the horseshoe crabs scuttle, <br />Where the fateful anchovies shimmer in orgasms of silver and <br />Breathless death, <br /> <br />I say, this should be Spain, and the trees olive, <br />And the clouds the curtains behind which she is naked, <br />But none of it is true though none the less moving forward unabashedly <br />With the recklessness of some liquor, <br /> <br />And the banners the way her hair flowed out his window <br />After the last period of rote lessons and full-toothed dentists, <br />And the side of her face the profile of a freshly painted billboard <br />I stream by attentively in observation of what there is for sale.<br /><br />Robert Rorabeck<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/going-back-to-school-2/

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