Scott Simpson · Poetry
Walden, Jan. 10, 2009
Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 324
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Walden, Jan. 10, 2009
Like some sort of Thoreau
ignorance, I am here-- I hear,
in my cabin in the woulds
and shoulds, doing nothing worth the
price of my real estate, with mortgage
I can
not even pay--I hear on my tele
vision, those chosen
people and their fugitives die aspora-
aspirations of promise now woven into
what's Read
of our Bibles, the White of unflown
flags, the gun-Blue of anthems launched
above poverty's head, and of dying babies.
Silly me, I went into the woulds
because I wished to live de-liberate-
ly.
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