T F Rice Poems

I support the right to bear arms:
arms that remember how to hold a life in them,
that treasure even their everyday entanglements,
arms that never rest but exercise their
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Today I sit at my
ordinary office desk
but
I take my blanket
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Sometimes I want to flee,
stumble down the steps to the sea,
fight the sand with all my might,
then breathe in the tears of the sea.
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What is fortune
if not the simple things
overlooked
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I remember best
how water lilies
lay with dead wood
so serene-
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I am told they
force mussels to birth
pearls
pry their life wide
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My car moves along
the roads,
like bow to violin:
one motion is not
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