Robert Rorabeck Poems

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2251.
Not Entirely Sure What I Saw What Is Still Taking Up My Time

I just don’t care that there
Are so many people moving in my mind,
Given over to drink and conversational
Séances—That I cannot succeed with them
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2252.
Familiar Song

My great middle-class evil
Going out to lunch
And dinner dates,
Spending your monies wisely,
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2253.
How It Goes

I’ll win because I’m not real,
And I’ve been doing this for so long,
Putting cheeks on my scars,
Scars on my cherries,
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2254.
On The Green Carpet Of I Don'T Care

Scars, cars, and traffic signals,
And steps down:
Empty cities now, going into one thousand
Acre graveyards,
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2255.
Sleeping Beauties

The more beautiful woman they are,
The less they could care about my job:
That I haven’t been published in
The Atlantic Monthly,
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2256.
Light In A Cup

Quiet, quiet
Slow to seep
Weeping oil
Go to sleep
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2257.
Seasons Of A Bicycle

Do good work now,
Knowing that by sunset the vessel will be emptied;
And if the voyage is not epic,
Let it be familiar
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2258.
The Clear Blue Sky

I want to flatter myself until I’m dead,
And raise up gray-haired Lazarus
And thank the Lord,
And scratch my pen:
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2259.
Campaign For My Scarlet Letter

Campaign for my scarlet letter,
My love, my love, my dinosaur:
And I’ll come back and be your lover,
Your first crush, your index finger,
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2260.
Before The Resilient Gazes Which Never Move

If you put me here,
Then this is where I’ll live;
And workout,
And shave- And hang my things out
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