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Poems by Stephen Dunn

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Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry

... Laugh at yourself, laugh at this poem, at all poetry ...

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I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone

... but tonight the body-hungers have sent out ...

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Allegory Of The Cave

... But in the semi-dark they read his wordswith the indulgence of those who seldom read: ...

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The Routine Things Around The House

... how we ease ourselves back from sadness,but I remembered when I was twelve, ...

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Welcome

... if you believe nothing is always what's left ...

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Story

... Three women crying in the street, each for different reasons ...

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Biography In The First Person

... My habits in bed are so perverse that they differentiate me ...

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At The Smithville Methodist Church

... sufficiently dead, that our children would think of him like Lincoln ...

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With No Experience In Such Matters

... the smallest protest, if that's what it was, ...

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Named

... was also more or less every namehe'd ever been called, and when you die, he thought, ...

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Essay On The Personal

... Years later, long after we believed it peculiar ...

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The Sudden Light And The Trees

... that hand open when I took it outside, a strengththat must have come out of hopelessness ...

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Slant

... I was just whispering into her mouth ...

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Walking The Marshland

... to the east. I liked saying craps and croupierand sometimes I wanted to be lost ...

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Landscape At The End Of The Century

... of night, unmetaphysical, cool as a skeptic's ...