Frank William Finney Poems

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1.
The Night You Fell

On the night you fell
on the narrow steps
you found your seat in the boat, as usual,
while Papa woke the Evinrude
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2.
The Ropes

Three sailors trotted
Behind your mother in a two-wheeled lifeboat
Like determined rats through the catwalks
To the cages of the newborns
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3.
Gadgets

Stuck to their ears
or courting their lips
everyone's got a gadget
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4.
Goose Rocks Beach

The towel of a stranger
lies dead on the beach
as the wind through the reeds
sings to the lovers sweating in the dunes
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5.
Fine Arts For Predators (A Crash Course)

Begin alla prima.
Paint yourself a podium and try
your luck while the wall's still wet.
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6.
A Surrealist's Dream Of A Cubist Umbrella

It's been three years
since we chased the piglets
under the uplifted fence
and startled the old sow
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7.
Adrift

The steer with the bullhorn's
hoofed it home
Tonight we'll hear no more from him
Let him bellow at passengers in his dreams
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8.
Making Ice Cubes

On the morning of your initiation,
the clock became the target of scorn.
The crows were grazing in the sprouting grass
and the cows were chewing endless
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9.
Sisyphus

I named the puppy Sisyphus
because he walked in circles
in a pup tent.
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10.
Karaoke Night

"Mammals tipple
and think they can sing, "

quipped the frog
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