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Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

Fifteen False Propositions Against God - Section XIV

If the diamond ring turns brass
Mama’s going to buy you a looking glass
Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
going on a picnic together when they were all students at the
University of Pennsylvania
Now they are all over seventy and the absent baby
Is a mirror sheltering their image.

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