When Writing Poems Could Get You Killed
I used to like to pound the typewriter
keys and pretend
I was hearing gunshots in an almond orchard,
the bullets neatly unbuttoning
the poet’s white dress
shirt, this back when
I used to spend a lot of ti…
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