A Thousand Times Over

Poem

D Beasley

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Nectarines, a connubial pile
of daily news, a sleeping dog
the Gertrude Stein matinee
I was had me
by the ankles you upside down
and the alphabet began with z

the real thing is on the tip of my fingers
a century with new hands
on me after your 35-millimeter…

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