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  13.                          Underground eXperts United
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  23.          [  Three Poems  ]                       [  By Scott Poole  ]
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  30.                              Three Poems
  31.                             by Scott Poole
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  34.                   The One Poem I Wrote In San Francisco
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  37.                   The gap toothed Negro
  38.                   swivels like the sun in an alley.
  39.  
  40.                   A Chinese draws a sword
  41.                   and hales a bus
  42.                   which runs him over.
  43.  
  44.                   Everyone flows to the right
  45.                   wandering in with the cars
  46.                   a lone security cop moves left.
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  48.                   The swirling Negro leaves
  49.                   San Francisco painted in salt,
  50.                   off to direct his new mental picture.
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  52.                   If I could just lie down
  53.                   with all these buildings on my back.
  54.  
  55.                   Then, in the morning
  56.                   rise like a giant
  57.                   and walk down the coast.
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  61.                   The Ex-Porn Star Retirement Center
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  64.                   In the future there will be eighty year old
  65.                   porn stars.
  66.                   I could retire with them.
  67.                   Watching their bodies under
  68.                   simple old lady dresses.
  69.                   Wandering the building with a slow gate,
  70.                   one hand stroking the wall,
  71.                   mouth open,
  72.                   drool falling out.
  73.                   And seeing their eyes turn on subjects
  74.                   of love and photographs.
  75.                   It would be wonderful
  76.                   with a mug of coffee
  77.                   giant old house by the woods.
  78.                   A blockbuster and
  79.                   take home pizza near by.
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  81.                   I would want each to have an advanced degree
  82.                   sitting on old couches,
  83.                   talking of Schopenhauer, Neruda,
  84.                   Thoreau, and Fudd.
  85.                   Listening to Bach and Metallica.
  86.  
  87.                   Maybe no talking,
  88.                   just the sound of birds
  89.                   on the screen porch
  90.                   a couple days deep in July.
  91.  
  92.                   Maybe just a slow gathering
  93.                   of images
  94.                   as I always have,
  95.                   relishing hands cooking,
  96.                   mustached lips, smiles,
  97.                   feet in nurses shoes shuffling.
  98.  
  99.                   The quiet way a leaf might talk
  100.                   the symphony of forest,
  101.                   among bodies that have survived
  102.                   almost an Olympic event,
  103.  
  104.                   the old porn stars and me.
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  108.                   The Minor Part
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  111.                   My foot on the gas petal
  112.                   the flower growing deeper
  113.                   into the car,
  114.                   the road, the time
  115.                   passing beneath my passive
  116.                   foot.
  117.                   Toes lay limp, but aware as
  118.                   bees waiting out a storm.
  119.                   No more energy than needed
  120.                   resting on a pin head,
  121.                   my foot
  122.                   dripping honey down my ankle
  123.                   this little piggy
  124.                   checked into a Zen center
  125.                   and never came home,
  126.                   taking me away from
  127.                   here in a blooming of
  128.                   machine, foot, and man
  129.                   playing out my minor part.
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