Some selections from Initiated, a very, very old collection of mine.

I have no idea

What you're after

I only know

That I don't know

What I want

And made love to you

Knowing you would

Pick up my worst habits

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QUERY

When did you

First realize

Your life would

Cost you your life?

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I'm one of those cranks

Who think animals are better than people

And why not? Doesn't the Bible

Tell there's no sin in them?

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It hurts to open the heart

Only God's silence answers a prayer

See how fragile the communication is

I'm trying out other voices

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1:30 AM

In deep night

A fast whirring

Car alarm

Persists

----dead stop

Then continues

As before

Soft then loud

As the

Air moves

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DECEMBER 28, 1980 (for T.D.M.)

So many years after your death

The night is dim red snowlight

The streetlamp's soft rays like arms

Reaching out to catch the racing fog

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INITIATED

Rain hangs tears

On every flower

The bee invades

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AN OLD MAN

Like a vision, Death

Fills his domain;

The world the width

Of a window pane.

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