Union had a meaning almost mystical
for Lincoln, based on data not statistical,
but on the proposition all mankind is equal,
emancipation the inevitable sequel.
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The term right-minded people mainly
denotes the people of the left
who think those on the right insanely
have been of reason quite bereft.
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I’m not a slumdog millionaire,
and can’t find answers in a quiz,
but like a Luftmensch in the air,
with lots of jeeze but sans the whiz,
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Pain, the only force that is created
without effort and with very little cost,
is, once forgotten, underrated,
bitter herbs of Passover on Pentecost.
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My views, if you chart them,
both for and against,
in utramque partem,
are past-future tensed,
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Three cords, E flat, the Magic Flute
Papageno’s glockenspiel,
Sarastro thought to be a brute
by Night Queen who cannot feel.
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With a smell we disinter
the past, as with a madeleine
Marcel, notorious pasticheur,
once did. Words never can explain
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When a candle in the thighs
inflames my woman, lucky men
like me respond without surprise,
allowing the equestrienne
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GREGOR SAMSA
He woke up in the morning thinking he was vermin,
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