ZIPPY

Little being born out of nothing
killed into something
pushed by the creator
and pulled by the destroyer:

the self stands aloof
and watches you amazed --
or feigns amazement while I suffer it.

July 31, 1976

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Best Poems

• Pining for Atlantis
• Sideways Stories
• Sayler's Creek
• Down Before Vontay
• Costume Changes
• Archetypes
• The Idiom of the Table
• Conversation with the Ghost of an Old Knight Sitting on Shakespeare's Grave
• Summer Beast
• The Grand Hotel Ballroom
• The Manufacture of Turpentine
• The Voice of the Turtle

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• Topical Indexes
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• Apex
• Sonnets
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• Juvenilia

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