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barber pole I stood in front of
barber pole I stood in front of
as a boy, the new housing project,
as a boy, the new housing project,
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat, poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,poverty just a spelling word.</poem></div>


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Someone believes, someone bleeds.
Someone believes, someone bleeds.
A girl bolts screaming from bed,</poem></div>
A girl bolts screaming from bed,</poem></div>
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her hands pathetic wild birds,
a wooden man plods from
the house of his single mind.
At such times, when the cover
is torn off catalog comforts
and nothing grown seems full,</poem></div>
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the child sliding head-first
into home, center of a good idea,
dustily rises, clear on the score,
and the words that passed for life
go in one ear and out the other,
a naughty habit never broken.
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