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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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ROBERT ELZY COGSWELL
Can't we talk We share our places after all. We sleep in the same bed. We eat in the same room. We ride the same car to work in the same building. We’re a polished sphere of togetherness. We talk to ourselves in dreams and daydreams. Incessantly we even talk in each other’s presence. There must be a way to take into ourselves the thoughts we hide behind our words. In the presence of our perpetual absence our generosity and our cruelty range together, grazing on the same sentences but giving different milk. Robert Elzy Cogswell recently retired from librarianship in Austin, Texas. Before that he was among other things a panhandler in Manhattan. He has poems published or forthcoming in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Lucidity, Lilliput Review, di-vêrsé-city, Farfelu, Pecan Press, and Ratherview. |
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