Phillip Lopate Poems

we who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
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You are not me, and I am never you
except for thirty seconds in a year
when ecstasy of coming,
laughing at the same time
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"BE YOUR OWN MASTER!" says the Vedanta Society sign.
Why not?…In the park
Some clouds roll over me like Greenland on a map.
If I wanted to I could imagine I was flying over
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