2001/pomonth

HOW TO CELEBRATE
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Take a poet to lunch,
maybe no one told you
but poets aren’t born dead,
it takes the usual
course of things
to get there,
disease, dismemberment
neglect.

Read Maxine Kumin,
or Charles Simic.

Buy Boulevard
or Rattle
or Onthebus.

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Five Points.