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Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly
Born in Brooklyn in 1935, Robert Kelly is the author of more than fifty collections of poems, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 and Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News, which received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award in 1980...
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Science  
by Robert Kelly
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Science explains nothing
but holds all together as
many things as it can count

science is a basket
not a religion he said
a cat as big as a cat

the moon the size of the moon
science is the same as poetry
only it uses the wrong words.



From May Day, published by Parsifal Press, Canada. Copyright © 2006 by Robert Kelly. Used by permission of the author.


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January 21, 2008
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