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Friday, January 31, 2020

To an Unknown Colombian Woman

Gridlock was rattling itself toward freedom! Monsters! Tyranny! Revolt. 
I gave up T&P with semiautomatic compassion 
for History changing unlike anything before.

She said You are my sky 
I want to feel your hot breath on my neck
and put me up there in the Screaming Sixties 
where the scalp of Earth 
curves into the mint-black sex of space 
as I stroll among the mint-white tongues of sea.

If I did, I died. 
If I didn’t, I died. I reasoned.

You can cry or you can sing. 
So why 
not 
sing?

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