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because we are middle aged because it is raining because our old lovers have new lovers because there are blue iris in a vase a childless woman has placed properly on a table because the little girls have picked bouquets of freesia for the picnic cloth because we are middle aged in the city of San Francisco all our old lovers have new lovers who we must sit down and eat with cold noodles with dipping sauce a freshly steamed whole salmon because we are tourists in our own pasts because we are houseguests we sleep on overly hard futons our child on the floor because we must be cordial on the telephone to everyone's ex-spouses because we must admire lemon trees grown in half barrels because we see the suffering of others because we see the suffering of ourselves because the little girls stuff bouquets into water glasses because we are middle aged because this is San Francisco because we will never be younger because this is a city of flowers because the homeless man sits in the fuchsia pavilion because this is the city of St. Francis because we cross the curved bridge together because... |
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Premiere Issue (Issue #1), June, 1998 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.