Bill Grace Poems

My right to buy is guaranteed
by all the land's great names
it is a thing that grants,
a modicum of fame.
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Reading good poets
makes me want
to be a good poet.
The good poets
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The dirt was mercifully soft
my friend had buried cats before
and knew how to coach.
Pushing the soft earth
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I admire the poet assassins with their perfect technique
find their destructiveness more than a little bleak
realizing only a few poets will write so well to be remembered.
For me it is a grace that any poet soul would ever try to tell
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Our lives are driven things
But not driven well
When we neglect the vehicle's maintenance
A simple reality
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The net has united what civil commerce could not join -
Frost laboring twenty years for a two bill tip
No wonder there was a darkness to his soul,
For isolation was his true reward and punishment.
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I come with pen Lord
As some saint of old would pray
Hear dog and furnace
In the bastion of the night
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The hoopla is gone
The guests went so long ago
That now we bring our child to them
And count leaving 'Leapster' as a sin
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Charley Rose I like you
TV cognoscente
And enjoy your public struggles
With the dark sides of the force
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