Geoffrey G. O'Brien Poems

I bypassed all the compromise,
The first ten problems of speech
And the latest, the sharpest, the contest,
Then began, having already fallen,
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To remember people in the act
Of speaking is to love them
And not the turquoise substrate
Redon supposed was all there was
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Control has been candied and exchanged
So many times it feels like the night
Of the day, a troubled ride through
A beginning whose motor announces
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What follows is terms and classifications, the West
Of speech congratulating itself within
A system so complex there's no way not to be
Effective. Just as they had planned the streets
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An away of practice the other is
Like a river out of acts the other is
Hapless, unheard, with marks upon him
Having dallied in tarrying unwisely
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The winter, it was the winter all
the usual things happened,
I have forgotten what
would travel from the north
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The experience of leaving
one category for another,
of smooth being colder
than rough and of
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