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Nazareth
Nick Galinaitis
I.
(Motorcycles)
They sound like drums, distantly
and like a struck drum he came
into the sights of us that loved him
on proud feet he came wanting
no other mornings
(lookers)
but he came smiling as he had no beautiful face
of other lookers (at dawn he sees it)
(and at night, he sees the hot faces of a person dead now,
though he is young)
lookers that came wanting
no other ignorances of the no beautiful place,
a far tundra,
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