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    Hands on the Hips: Collected Poems
    Hands on the Hips: Collected Poems
    Hands on the Hips: Collected Poems
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    Hands on the Hips: Collected Poems

    By jhon z. baker

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    hands on the hips is the newest volume of the collected poems of Jhon Z. Baker, compiled from published and unpublished poems. This is poetry for the real, poetry for the people, poetry for the moment, poetry to satiate the needs, poetry of an American outlaw.

    untitled (the sane)

    The sane point fingers
    to keep themselves appearing sane
    to stay their definition
    The glamorous point bejeweled fingers
    to keep their proportions
    as the definition of beauty

    Well, stop pointing your
    sticky fingers at me
    I will not obsess your definitions
    I am comfortable in my own
    imbalance
    and deformed self
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateAug 31, 2010
    ISBN9781426939457
    Hands on the Hips: Collected Poems
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    jhon z. baker

    Jhon Z. Baker is a poeta Chicago poet, an American Outlaw poet. While he is a classically trained musician and artist, he spends most of his time writing poetry on his 1983 IBM Selectric III, the Cadillac of typewriters. He lives with his wife and son in Elgin, Illinois.

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