Robert Ronnow Poems

At dinner, Zach asks
about our nation's history, wars.
I say We're taking on everyone, one at a time.
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Supermarket celebration
shoppers are cytoplasm searching
for cellulose, muscle, photosynthesis.
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If a poem or essay can end with a conclusion or its
      opposite, either one,
Can it be of any use to anyone?
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You'll soon lose interest in walking
and talking and wearing the cap
of a fool. You'll.
            Words: walk, talk, wear, cap, fool, you, soon,
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The wood is stacked for winter.
One way out of the mind's limitations
is through other minds' contemplations.
The books are stacked for winter.
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Not like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a
      buttercup
with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a
      bluebeech,
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Numerous number systems beyond the real:
complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat
      whole black holes.
It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences,
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I like his confidence, that working the problem
will certainly result in better outcomes than guessing.
A rationalist who does not depend on a higher power
to direct his decisions, but who may concede,
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Yogurt.
'I begin the day buying yogurt in a small favorite grocery
      store.'
Not pizza, nor gatorade.
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I like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration, Jane
passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless
      world.
That's a new idea to her.
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