2003

The century's an oily baby.

Already I want to get rid of it ­

not really ­ I want to steal it

from the depleted uranium time-thugging word-eating woman-bleeding

sky-defiling earth-defolia ­

and so on

who know they own all the zeros

that we

could roll

out from under the curved bills of bombers

fill with breath with rounded

ohs so hope

will keep our mouths opening

and ease our hands from where they're crossed now

holding our hearts in.

Lee Sharkey

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