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POPPIES

Duane Locke

Like the Orpheus of Rainer Maria Rilke, I have
Eaten in this double, misinterpreted world
Poppies with the dead.
She, a Slavic-Teutonic blonde, was dead
When on Labor Day in Italy I ate
Poppies and drank Campari with her.
Perhaps It was I
Who was dead on that day in Italy.
So it was she in Italy who
Ate poppies with the dead, not me.

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