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THE DEVIL AND THE DEVIL

 

The baby worries with an eight-day frown

as if it has lived eighty years already,

rejects its mother’s breast, takes to the bottle.

At the gates of the hospital a beggar turns

in his night carton mumbling obscenities

at sylvan memories to keep them buried.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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