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poem

John Sweet

diane, always dreaming about the
rings of saturn, about warm beaches and
good wine, but not here,
                    not now

this is the wrong side
of the continent

this is where the streets all
end in cemeteries,
where every town is blanketed with
soft, dirty layers of ash and rust

early spring sunlight on cracked and
collapsing parking lights, on
poisoned soil, and we wait to see what grows

teenaged girls, maybe, all of them dying
of cancer or of diseases still
waiting to be named

flowers,
despite everything

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