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This poem is taken from PN Review 70, Volume 16 Number 2, November - December 1989.

An Art that Nature Makes Colin Falck

The hard thing is embracing
death. Still thirty-five like you
I cherish youth in my close
companions, live for each hot
convulsion, and (liking girls)
sometimes think to get a sonne.

Even in verse we pose. Yet
the blue jay's hidden purpose
...


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