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Thoughtful I put my head on your head. |
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| How far | ||||||||||
Does a radish travel? |
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| If I can work | ||||||||||
| The radish into my scheme | ||||||||||
| I will be | ||||||||||
| Vegetable happy. | ||||||||||
But it has nothing to do with nothing. |
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| Into your head. | ||||||||||
| They travel out my ear and rise | ||||||||||
| Up to the ceiling. | ||||||||||
| They are smoke. | ||||||||||
| They curl around the fan | ||||||||||
| And dissipate. | ||||||||||
| I am thoughtless. | ||||||||||
My head lies on your head |
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| Like a coconut. | ||||||||||
| This is love. | ||||||||||
This is the milky taste of coconut |
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| Meat. | ||||||||||
| Still, I love you from a distance | ||||||||||
| Like a cigarette. | ||||||||||
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| David Lawrence | ||||||||||
David Lawrence has been an English Professor, a Wall Street Tycoon, a rapper, a professional boxer, a jailbird, an actor and a model. He has published more than three hundred poems in North American Review, Pearl, California Quarterly, Confrontation, The South Carolina Review, ACM, Poet Lore and Mudfish. He has also published four books of poetry. |
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