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David Shapiro wishes Jasper Johns a happy birthday (May 15)!
Doubting the Doubts
A map dropped from my hands
And a voice cried, From now on
You will proceed in darkness.
Alas, he laughed, that is true.
Was it a black map?
I do not remember.
We all love clarity.
But you love darkness.
But darkness is clear.
We do not know now and we will never know.
White night, perilous night.
– David Shapiro (May 15, 2008)
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Radio
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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