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    SEVEN NEW POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN …

    Dec 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Joseph Harrison

    Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman

    Sometimes I dream that I am not Walt Whitman,
    That I am an engineer, or an airplane pilot,
    Or a schoolteacher, or a soldier, or a traveling salesman,
    Not a poet living his afterlife through his poems.

    I enjoy those dreams. I enjoy waking to find they were only dreams.

    Let Them Say Whatever They Want

    Let them say whatever they want about me on the internet,I am

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