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May 20, 2021

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The more he praises the less he believes,
and this isn't so unusual, is it, if politics
is an extension of show business toward
other ends? But my father-in-law skillfully
steered the conversation to the kitchen
hoping that I had one in the oven.

Propellers, propellants: his learned gasses
Fail to combust, ignite, the lads & lasses.
Cartoon balloons encircle all his thoughts--
He's lost me; I've retreated to the aughts.
A decade where he starred, or that's the story--
Now he's a walking memento mori.

Who the hell is he anyway?
No one seems to know his name
I miss Ginsberg and his acid tests
But is there anything left to protest?
America two dollars and twenty seven cents
This guy wants change from a 20.

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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