New Art
He will become something
under those dark eyes something
will become of him in the morningthe windows held all his pictures
he had painted every one and
hung them there like whistlesand girls, yes, he will call them his
own and only ones
girls will wonder why his hands have
green veins and purplehe'll tell them about the drug
they cannot have
unless they make it themselves
of their own skin and breathon broad shoulders he'll carry the
sky like a dovehe's bending now
to the ground and swooping up
in a book of featherslook it has everyone's name
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