Masarik, Albert

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Hard Hathis belly hangs downover his pantslike a child's pouting lip.his cheeks are red & puffy like a boy's.America has been good to him$10 an hour & no high school diploma.he doesn't really hateTHE COLOREDworks with themevery daythere's good & badbut when they moveinyou've got to face facts about property values.he's proud of his yellow hat he helped build Americamake it what it is today.he's a real man a 20th century cowboy.he's General Custer 8s no matter where he lookshe sees the dust of Indian ponies.I Sit Dripping Sweatin my ragged underwear sunlight sifting thru the screenshorts clinging to the chairwords buzzing like flies thru my head something swatting them before they make it out.every day the same, words 8s coffee 8s sunlight, waiting for something to comethat when right is not mine anyway.something that is not me binding me to this chair as the rooster out my window is bound to crowas the birds are bound to sing etc.poems like cats, arrogant, independent things.how's it going? she calls from the kitchen.not bad, not bad.

I Sit Dripping Sweat

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I Sit Dripping Sweat

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