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Loose Ceiling Tile Litany

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Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 67

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Loose Ceiling Tile Litany

The loose ceiling tile is over

my head--- it lifts ever so slightly and I see

purgatory above me.

The loose ceiling tile is not

loose of its own doing---

it has become that way from

years of unsolicited handlings.

The loose ceiling tile is 10 ft. up...

it is 12 in X 12 in and

contains the whole

of the Library of Congress

within its perforated edges.

The loose ceiling tile is a member

of a 12-step program.

The loose ceiling tile believes in

no other gods before me.

The loose ceiling tile will

fall one day, bringing

everything down to crush my

intuitions.

I am the loose ceiling tile

by virtue of the fact that

I am one geometrical son-of-a-

gun.

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