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Collected Poetry

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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Night


Where we hoped to find a receptive dance
we heard a music drawing in, as if touched

pensively; then, it diminished as a neon buzz above
standing water.  The night was assiduous and knew

it soon became an obscured time.  Its glance
was seldom and filled with jokes or longing

for abrupt tenderness—one that might not
divulge an arrogant wish.  We hummed a quiet tune;

through the smoke of abandoned cigarettes
we sat with our company of unshaven, uneven,
      uneventful men
noting the continuum, and how much of it spread
unabated, unattended, wide-buttocked and conspicuous.



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