2 short poems by others, 2 by me.
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A poem by Ishmael Reed (born 1938)
Dualism
(in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man)
i am outside of
history. i wish
i had some peanuts, it
looks hungry there in
its cage
i am inside of
history.it’s
hungrier than i
thot
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poem by Mike White (born 1971)
The Way
The fourth leg
of the dog
with now
only three
was the
in-the-way one
he’d lift
in order to pee
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She’s the dew
on my petal
refracting the light
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There’s this whisper
beneath my silence
wondering why
