Frank William Finney Biography

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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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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Stuck to their ears
or courting their lips
everyone's got a gadget
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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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Begin alla prima.
Paint yourself a podium and try
your luck while the wall's still wet.
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