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A Classic Poem
Choosing to Think of It
by Stephen Dunn

-------- Today, ten thousand people will die and their small replacements will bring joy
and this will make sense to someone removed from any sense of loss.
I, too, will die a little and carry on,
doing some paperwork, driving myself
home. The sky is simply overcast,
nothing is any less than it was yesterday or the day before.
In short, there's no reason or every reason why I'm choosing to think of this now.
The short-lived holiness true lovers know,
making them unaccountable except to spirit and themselves--
suddenly I want to be that insufferable and selfish, that sharpened and tuned.
I'm going to think of what it means to be an animal crossing a highway,
to be a human without a useful prayer setting off on one of those journeys we humans take.
I don't expect anything to change.
I just want to be filled up a little more with what exists,
tipped toward the laughter which understands I'm nothing and all there is.
By evening, the promised storm will arrive.
A few in small boats will be taken by surprise.
There will be survivors, and even they will die.


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Cool Tombs
by Carl Sandberg

When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs he forgot
the copperheads and the assassin . . .
in the dust, in the cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
cash and collateral turned ashes . . .
in the dust, in the cool tombs.
Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar,
sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May,
did she wonder? does she remember? . . .
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Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
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