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After Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Song, Rabbit
(with apologies) Now there’s two kinda people in the world There’s two kinda people in the world There’s two kinda people in the world The young people and…
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Blind Date With a Poem
No title. No author. Read first; meet the culprit afterward.
In a park
near my home
some big fucker
who didn’t like
my face
took a swing at me.
I blocked
his right hand
with my left
& by chance
my Tiparillo cigar
smashed into his nose
before he
could land
a punch.
It happened
so quickly
all I remember
are the sparks
& his screams
as I ran away.
Phoenix, 1965
by Mike Casetta
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