Robert Rorabeck Poems

I want to believe that going to the movies
Is the only activity that I can take a stand in—
And I want to message your brother who is now your
Sister in Dallas, Texas—that I still love you—
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The savage packages are day-gone, even without
The numerations of your envelops,
And I drink rum and think of a marionette while
Trying to be politically correct and a
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A languishing perception of the classrooms holds over,
Like rain trying surmount the stained glass of a church in between
Where I worked and the bar where
You served beer- Now all of my words are echoes—
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Angles of light proceed me—Soon they will be
Fishing around my skull—
In amphitheaters of skullduggery I will swear
That you can never remember—
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Angles of light proceed me—Soon they will be
Fishing around my skull—
In amphitheaters of skullduggery I will swear
That you can never remember—
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Come to me through the angles of lost
Science,
Of how the pleasant men used to have to
Look at the earth:
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Now I am as famished as a stone sitting upon the
High ground—while my wife lies beside me,
Reading in the night—
As the waves caress the shore, as the airplanes
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The same relaxing meaning drinking its liquor in
The middle of
The country while the race cars race
And the baseball plays its games—what is left for
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I drink as I stand and the night vanished
Without any reason—
I do not have any more personality than the morning,
And the most of what I've done should be
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In the fieldtrips of demigods of cartoons
I keep going on and on while the day is spent and my peers
Get older and older until they become reprobate—
And this lands becomes a mutual fairytale
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