Maureen N. McLane Poems

and sex once
a day a week a
month a year
goes by and one
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Like all children Mz N lived
in archaic
mythic zones
and all the neighbors and kin played their parts to a T
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It's not that I'm opposed
to poison in my lips

or pig in my soap—
it's not that I'm opposed.
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Recalcitrant elephants
begin to attack.
The angry young males
of murdered mothers.
...

cold birds
still sing

a bright sun
chill air
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As a man may go to Costco,
Buy the jumbo pak of diapers, double liters of
Coke and Diet Coke and a sixpack and stock up on
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