Robert Rorabeck Poems

Foxes with pretty smiles competing for badges:
While the final battle looms nearer- as death has its way
Over the pretty chariots and the purple wedding
Processions,
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If I have existed forever, I have only been remembered
In the writings of love,
Then the horses stand still when it snows, and the moon is
Covered up while she is cold by
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Pennies in the arcade of her eyes,
And anyways we made love and had an excuse:
Little child evacuated from her body,
Helped me move further away from the fortex
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There is a science up in the air given over to
Juvenility and lunch trucks—
As beautiful girls are given to their men,
Like the sacrifices at the ends of their dusty roads:
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Coiling at the corners,
Womb of a coiling succubus,
And drinking tequila—
Now I have to pee,
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This is not Halloween
But this is still Shanghai even some
weeks from burning
Fake money to my wife’s
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Chinese people waking up around
Me and drying their eyes:
Walking upon tiptoes around me—It
Is as if this is the planet Mercury
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Someone told me today that she was already mine,
As the waves bit the comb, and their sea did shine;
And yesterday there was Alma,
In my house and in my shirt, while the animals made love
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Lighthouses of transom monoliths,
I just want to undo her bra
And walk down this way through her easy mazes
Where the salt water licks into finer things
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In the city lies the citizens laid quiet off the ejaculating of
The exhausting angels:
Those pretty demigods that put them to work, and then
Sent them back home again,
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