Turns out Richard Cory had pancreatic cancer;
Was told he had, at best, six months to live.
After the initial shock, he called his lawyer
To help draw up the will in which he’d give
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I met the old man again last night
sitting by the side of the road.
I see more and more of him now
since my father died.
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are begging theory
to spare them from experience
politics from history
poetics from the line.
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What we did that summer evening
was turn our bicycles upside down
so the seats were on the ground
and the wheels in the air—
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“This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.”
—Robert Frost, “Directive”
At Mattel Toys in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1973,
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“Will you please get that cat out of your bed! ”
I shout, opening Janet’s door to say goodbye—
on my way down the hall, out to the garage,
onto the freeway towards work.
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For those of you
who come here
out of spite
expecting to hear
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Why must they turn and look back?
Ruin everything at the last moment.
Lot’s wife... Eurydice’s lover...
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as we walked along the railroad track kicking stones
Paul Herschak showed me what the 5: 15
had done to his Indianhead penny:
no feathers... no warrior...
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