Monday, January 6, 2014

4892. MY STOCKESMAN'S ALLY


MY STOCKESMAN'S ALLY
Ever at loose in a Philadelphia alley, I want 
to find goodness in a patch of historic ground.
Here is Christ-Church; good enough now. Not 
so far off, Ben Franklin's grave, with all those 
dimes and quarters. It's a far-different world 
from the one I first saw and examined - my 
Manchecker gloves are battling the uncivil 
cold, a Betsy Ross stamp on my letter.
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I haven't any enemies and I haven't any friends.
All are just purloined co-habitors of a wild
and running furnace - sun-crazed when
burning hot, and ice-to-bones when not.

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