Sam Howard Poems

these lines are openings
these lines are openings

there is an explanation but the facts are scarce
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If you stumble upon this you are chosen.
do not hesitate to declare yourself a king
or a queen
or a supreme dictator of all peoples
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here are four things i know.

one. you are easily tricked.
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The wombats are roosted beside your bed,

we grope gently out of respect.
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Place:
Kentucky, where they found coal.
Time:
The decadent end of a millenium.
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i am so tired
that my atoms have let go
of their orbits
now my aura has
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i am standing on a street, there is concrete and there is grass,
there are bottles and there is plastic, fragmented,
lesser parts of something that was whole, something
once that was and now is not, the pieces rest,
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