poetry critical

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Random Poem:

Noisy cats are we
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Begin the automatic nine-to-nine lifting;
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stand up in the air.  Don't go back to imitation:
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you are the hairshirt religion.
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We walk unafraid, parallel parakeets laughing
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in the aftermath; exhuming lepers, losing my tongue so
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fast, so numb.
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All the right bad days crush beachballs,
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disappear, turn to night, swimming.
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I've been high, banged and blamed, so
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why not smile? Reconstruction falls to climb,
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and Binky is gardening to be mine.
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It's the end of sitting still, shaking through, burning
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down, and second guessing — wind out.
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Want to buy this berry mill? It'll cost you a buck or a stipend.
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