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STEVE APPLEI

FALL OF 1973

Rise and walk a mile in pain to pain you go

Andsit in- tight til time lets out and you
do too

And rise again and walk again .a mile back to

YOur bed

To find it lost beneath a pile of work you

shovel away in time to walk again to eat

and tall and walk bac\. again and sit
Andrise again to climb the stairs downand

head again over fields again to those tiny

hour traps and sometimes hall one llDre again

Release is found released you are from this

at least and plod back thinking thoughts ahead

last nights life was dead tonights th~ same as

they almost al.l are and att.heir
l!'?ga.a1kJ;..na . repeatin. g eatin. g
·Lo<,)k,at g:i:r:lsbehind girls backs

backs and at the rest of them and they look

back at you, at your back?
Plans are 1ItIiildeto make you feel your tifes more

real at night than day but day .rules again and

tonigbts meant for tonx>rrow
"But I live for tonight tomorrow be damned the

hard :man said behind his sheJ.l with swo%d in

hand and sweat on ass"

And sleep is tiring here to ••.

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