The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for February 1999
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pen poised motionless for no man paralyzed by habitual contempt habitually renewed in observation contemplation of the reality of the world dismissed as mundane or incompetent but simply outside the tightening inner sphere of paradise constructed by dainty feigned refinement and careful avoidance detached delicacy |
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and cultured imagination of the unrealized glimpsed now and then with bemused awareness of absent connection and phony wisdom pencil poised to pass the time careful avoidance the sound of the words [the steel drums in the subway play santa clause is coming to town] translucent pillow darting between dreams of flight and soliloquy |