robert dickerson Poems

You are like a goddess when you
laugh like a goddess and the stars,
those churches of wisdom,
whirl in your eyes and you tap your boy
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The subway is so foul somedays there is nothing to do
but take off your head and stow it in your bag
as I myself did this morning, boarding the L-
a technique learned from my friend Biff the bouncer,
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At such moments 'hernias need not be a problem'.
'If adolescent problem are pushing you to the brink'
'squeeze your way to shapely hips and thighs'
'deep asleep in your beautiful, clear skin'.
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I am a young tree
propped up with props
in heaven's face I push my leaves,
towards earth my roots.
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Child, don't turn your back on the past
It's the only thing of which we can say
'This is' instead of 'this may be'
And which is living, having passed away.
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Sure, thinking too much can get you in trouble-
but exactly how much and in just what way
is difficult, of course, to say.
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</>It's what everybody else
Expects of everybody else,
Disappointed, shocked,
even, to find they haven't,
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He stood thus so in full sight
of the tyrant's manacle
and in the pillar carved his name
deeply through the halls of fame,
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We might sleep and loll away our days
And never care-why should we? (It's
All gonna fade, as the song says)
Make it our biggest job to roll
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The question, I almost forgot,
(thanks for reminding me)
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