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Title: The moon smells
Author: susan bradley smith
Date Submitted: 8/18/2006

 
Poem: like gunpowder. I heard tonight
that you were in trouble. I’m not
here to help, let me tell you
I have a gun cocked at your
need, rock solid and covered in
denim . Spoil me, spill over
me. Me, I was size seven and now
I’m sorry you’re so old that
you’ve had a heart attack.
My heart has long suffered thus:
The need for surgery....