Best Lower Poems

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The sound of an ambulance 
    in the distance 
   Some poor soul is
in trouble 
    A warm day has led 
to a moderate August 
  evening 
I feel the tomorrow 
   sill be...

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I live on the fabled 
   Lower East Side 
Spanish people hanging out 
  and playing dominoes for money 
Children playing ball 
   in the schoolyard 
  An Orthodox man 
complete with black hat 
   ambles past...

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while shaving my beard
in a public library,
i become humbled...

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Past the bodegas 
the House of Sages 
    Past the children playing 
in the yard 
Past the drugstore 
     chains
Past the basketball 
hoops - - which remind 
    me 
of a class at Brooklyn College...

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Halloween Night October thirty-first,
twenty-seventeen. A wet night of lit
cut out jack-o-lanterns, parties, games, cursed
ghouls and goblins, and witches shadows flit.

Children dress in fun or scary costumes
going door-to-door round the neighborhood
shouting, "Trick or treat!" running on sweet fumes
being good, but they eat more than they should.

Today...

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Sitting here listening to 
a baseball game on my radio 
I feel the joy of a new autumn 
The season of the high holidays
Halloween and leaves changing colors 
The season of the high holidays 
Halloween and leaves changing color
The season of the world series and...

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Pot holes,
dust devils,
Wind sweeping off the ocean onto the oil field by Lower road.
Quiet Field,
Filled with fuel and man's black gold,
Quiet Field 
of prosperity and far off plight,
The oil field by Lower road. 

Machines of might roll the lands of the oil field. 
Pushing dirt,...

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a tick is crawling
in hairs of my genitals
scaring me awake...

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This morning
as I awake
cattle prod
right in the
sacroiliac.
Moooo....

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A little south of Heaven
On the Gulf of Mexico
Here in the Heart of Dixie
The living's easy and slow

The weather's mostly nice here
Round Mobile Bay
Sunshine when it ain't raining
It's beautiful today here in L.A.

Living in L.A.
Lower Alabama
Spanish moss, azaleas
A deep south panorama, Lower Alabama
So far south,...

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grooming in my car
in a dark, dawn parking lot,
again i'm humbled...

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After listening to a Pharaoh Sanders recording 
   I pick up my pen to write an ode 
I am a published poet 
  as are all of us here on the "soup"
  The Lower East Side is 
home to Spanish, Jewish,...

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I hear the rush of cars rushing by in the rain 
outside
   from my place in the fabled Lower east Side 
  Staying dry indoors 
I sit down and write this ode 
Just attended a short story discussion group 
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He had no teeth and neither did his girlfriend.
We’d sit in his apartment in the dark drinking margaritas and watch Jeopardy.
He’d answer every question correctly and his girlfriend would cackle.
He’d shoot at the mice with a pellet gun as they scurried in the shadows.
He rarely...

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