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    Three Poems

    Jun 01, 2022 4 minutes

    Strange as the Rules of Grammar II

    I have uncovered evidence your broken secret heart holds a hairline fracture held together by kite string

    Carol Burnett is heralded in a criminally low number of imaginations

    The leaves in the fall burn a copper like fire in a storm of applause around a laugh strange as the rules of grammar

    Ladies & Gentlemen put your hands together for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s beautifully iambic name

    Do not think of all the tall in him squeezing into a stall at the mall as strange

    Some days his father whispered to himself Someday that boy’s

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