Max Reif Poems

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161.
.25) Fires In Texas And Oklahoma

What God has ordained
can’t be avoided
We can’t see the marks
on people and places,
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162.
Rules For A Marriage

Look, I'm quite happy
As an introverted, sloppy,
Creative, easygoing, poor,
Overweight, insecure misfit!
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163.
Faint Lotus

Faint lotus,
your outline
appearing in the sun,
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164.
Teaching A Seven-Year-Old To Play Guitar

This week he's hiding
under a blanket
when I come.
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165.
Bobby

That summer my second wife and I
lived on the state road in rural
North Carolina in the 6-room farmhouse
I got for $100 a month, amid
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166.
About Time

Time, that relentless snail,
outpaces every cheetah,

crawls on toward the infinitely
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167.
Working On A Poem With George

I got there strung out
on sleeplessness
and too much coffee.
I told him so,
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168.
Winter Sonnet: Awaiting The Iraq War

Snow of innocence, cover this fallen world.
Your blanket blots, in purifying white,
And blurs, our human legacies of blight.
Hail, flurry-flying flag of peace unfurled!
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169.
Limits

In my 30's I wrote a book of poems
all about infinite possibility.
A friend's dad, a doctor,
read them and said:
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170.
Odometer

I remember how
my new Mazda 626
flew over the road
as I watched the odometer
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