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Again and Again and Again

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You said the anger would come back just as the love did. I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate…

After Auschwitz

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Anger, as black as a hook, overtakes me. Each day, each Nazi took, at 8:00 A.M., a baby and sauteed him for breakfast in his frying pan. And death looks…

Admonitions To A Special Person

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Watch out for power, for its avalanche can bury you, snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain. Watch out for hate, it can open its mouth and you’ll fling yourself out…

A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston

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Until tonight they were separate specialties, different stories, the best of their own worst. Riding my warm cabin home, I remember Betsy’s laughter; she laughed as you did, Rose, at…

A Curse Against Elegies

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Oh, love, why do we argue like this? I am tired of all your pious talk. Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to listen, so leave…

45 Mercy Street

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In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I’m walking up and down Beacon Hill searching for a street sign — namely MERCY STREET.…

“Daddy” Warbucks

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In Memoriam What’s missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn’t matter because you’ve got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks. You let me touch them, fondle…