Michael Benedikt Poems

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1.
The European Shoe

The European Shoe is covered with grass and reed, bound up and wound
around so that it may slip easily over the wearer's head.

In case you are an aircraft pilot, you must take care that the
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2.
To Persuade A Lady carpe Diem

True, I have always been happy that all the things that are inside
the body are inside the body, and that all things outside
the body, are out
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3.
The Beef Epitaph

This is what it was: Sometime in the recent but until now unrecorded
past, it was decided by certain ingenious and commercially forward-looking
cattle-ranchers in a certain large, modern Western nation which prides itself
on being nutritionally forward-looking, that since people are increasingly
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4.
Portland Taxis

If were on Mars, and wanted to get back-to-home, I would
Hail a taxi. There's nothing I like better
Than hailing a taxi, they have saved me many times
From the spectre of fiscal responsibility. From the bottom
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5.
Of Seals, And Our Smiles

The last time they did any harm to anyone was probably thousands
of years ago;--therefore we catch them and cut them up into coats,
Their frolicsomeness, too, sliced up by contemptuous human analysis;
Yes, through the binoculars of the human in the dinghy, like a text
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