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Blues by Elizabeth Alexander
I am lazy, the laziest
The Telephonist by Susan Yuzna
I had my order. Not of the choirs
The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Po' Boy Blues by Langston Hughes
When I was home de
The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
Hay for the Horses by Gary Snyder
He had driven half the night
The Orange Bears by Kenneth Patchen
The Orange bears with soft friendly eyes
Coming Close by Philip Levine
Take this quiet woman, she has been
The Whistle by Yusef Komunyakaa
The seven o'clock whistle
Personals by C. D. Wright
Some nights I sleep with my dress on. My teeth
A Red Palm by Gary Soto
You're in this dream of cotton plants
Testament by Carl Sandburg
I give the undertakers permission to haul my body
On Quitting by Edgar Guest
How much grit do you think you've got
The Debt by Paul Laurence Dunbar
This is the debt I pay