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Love

by Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

The thing comes
of itself

(Look up
to see
the cat & the squirrel,
the one
torn, a red thing,
& the other
somehow immaculate




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Lincoln said, 'When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.' And that's my religion.
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