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[      	 ] or who otherwise pose
 
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particular emphasis [      	 ] and repeat
 
aliens [      	 ] who participated [      	 ]
[       	] subject to outstanding [      	 ]
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the community; [      	 ] other than [      	 ];
and [      	 ] who have not been [      	 ];
 
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previously removed [      	 ] who other-
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from "We Do the Polis"

Pent up
in a narrow

compass
and shortened

on every side
by the neigh-

borhood
of walls


These veterans
of future wars

handing out
the PTSD

brieflets
before

the mess
to come

*

Were verbing
swerved

and swayed
into sieves

maneuvering
toward

fissures
in the line


Swallowed
the scare quotes

and choked on
what hung there

in the air
around me

stripped of that
security

*

A field
of intensities

pulse through
a set

of others
coaligned

in throng
song


What poetry
is this

happening
too fast

to count
the syllables

in each throat's
retort

Related Poems

Lesson VIII: Map of North America

redacted from Smith’s Quarto, or Second Book in Geography, 1848, p. 17

     division

     division

                           general divisions

                  opposite
cluster     clusters         What considerable number

 

Where is
                           Where is Cape Farewell?

 

What sound leads into            the largest

         What  What  What  What

Boundaries  Bound United      Bound
          the    New    ?       Bound      possessions?

        What  What  What  What

prevails

        What  What  What  What

races  What   race    ?