Abandoning the Mechanical
—for my friends, the professors
It is sometimes this business
of having
to keep talking
I hear myself
making painful sounds
spinning and splattering
like a car
caught in the slush
I just want to
walk away, but I have
this fear
of needing to cover
so much desolate ground.
.
by Lou Lipsitz
from Seeking the Hook
Signal Books 1997
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