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After school, we climb the old bare wood stairs
up the musty hallway to the attic,...

1.408 Sat,20-Aug-2011
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Freedom of Expression

the girls ooh & aah
loose and wild on the streets
black lights flash
...

1.410 Sun,29-Jan-2012
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To Walt Whitman

Dear Walt,
Your Long Island has changed.
The rolling Manhasset Hills running along...

1.412 Fri,09-Dec-2011
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For the Critic

“It’s not real,” the waitress told me, after the
reading at Java Joe...

1.414 Mon,16-May-2011
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Inner Circle

Trapped in the park at night,
between Seymore and Fenton Avenues
the homeboys, the...

1.419 Wed,28-Sep-2011
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Picnic on Calvary

I watch him hobble down
the path, right through
the crowd gathered in the park....

1.429 Tue,13-Dec-2011
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Celebrating the Sabbath

Sunday afternoon the rain stops.
Inanimate bodies of the faithful
that had been...

1.443 Thu,25-Aug-2011
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A Music Lesson

The guys and I were hanging outside the pizza parlor
in the shopping center parking lot...

1.455 Sat,04-Feb-2012
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Stationary

I stand on the platform waiting for the train,
while the bells toll from the cathedral...

1.471 Fri,09-Dec-2011
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The Dance

She struts on stage scantily dressed, black
leather mini skirt and matching vest.
...

1.472 Sun,29-Jan-2012
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Poetry Slam

Within the ivy covered halls of academia
Gothic bards go on the warpath
dressed in...

1.475 Fri,24-Feb-2012
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Waiting for My America

When I was 5 years old,
          ...

1.476 Mon,16-May-2011
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Let the Hammer Fly

Ride down
Ocean Parkway
on a summer night,
suspended
above the...

1.476 Mon,27-Feb-2012
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Beatified

I am one of those lost souls,
the last generation destroyed
by madness, pent up...

1.485 Mon,16-May-2011
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Twenty Lines

Twenty Lines are not enough.
Twenty Lines are not enough to expose
  ...

1.486 Sat,11-Jun-2011
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Modern Feudalism

Late in the evening, the Lord High Mayor summoned the
Blue Knights of the Galahad squad...

1.487 Wed,21-Dec-2011
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We were

We were young rebels acting cool
hanging out all hours of the night
tired of...

1.503 Sat,13-Aug-2011

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