Stuff
Product Details
Scribner, March 2002
Trade Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN-10: 074322552X
ISBN-13: 9780743225526
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Text Excerpt 5
NOVEMBER 30
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What a night what a light what a moon
white with patches of blue snow & here I am
striding longlegged to the bar on East 4th Street
Never was a Martini more deserved
The hot water pipe in my apartment sprang a leak
soaking a couple dozen books, magazines, files
There is renewed evidence of mice
My left eye has begun to twitch
after two and a half hours on the Taconic
and then to play War & Chicken on New York streets
but I had Mingus and "Fables of Faubus"
to keep me awake while you slept
and now the city, which suspended its activity
in my absence, has come back to me
with exciting new crises a haystack of mail
and thee O silver moon
(appeared in Five Points)
Copyright © 2002 by David Lehman
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