The Trouble With Poetry (2011)

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Oh, fellow inhabitants of this singular band, sitting up in your many beds this morning— the sun falling through the windows and casting a shadow on the sundial— consider those in other zones who cannot hear these words.
They are not slipping into a bathrobe as we are, or following the smell of coffee in a timely fashion.
Rather, they are at work already, leaning on copy machines, hammering nails into a house-frame.
They are not swallowing a vitamin like us; rather they are smoking a cigarette u
...nder a half moon, even jumping around on a dance floor, or just now sliding under the covers, pulling down the little chains on their bed lamps.
But we are not like these others, for at this very moment on the face of the earth, we are standing under a hot shower, or we are eating our breakfast, considered by people of all zones to be the most important meal of the day.
Later, when the time is right, we might sit down with the boss, wash the car, or linger at a candle-lit table, but now is the hour for pouring the juice and flipping the eggs with one eye on the toaster.


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