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paul weinman





within a cricket's carapace


The young boy I baby'sat for
put a cricket between his lips.
Bit a piece of its brownish-black back
off. Said the Pledge of Allegiance
in perfectly spoken Spanish.
Classical. Even Cervantes
would have sheathed his sword.
I called up celestial things.
I asked for my father's judgment.
A coupon for a Pizza Hut Combo
was glued to my forehead.



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