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Across from me the whole ride

Hardly stirred: just Mister with his barren

Skull across the arm-rest while the kid

Got his head between his mama's legs and slept. The poison

That replaces air took over.

And they sat-as though paralysis preceding death

Had nailed them there. The track bent south.

I saw her pulsing crotch... the lice rooted in that baby's hair.

(Continues...)

Excerpted from First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Gluck Copyright © 2003 by Louise Gluck
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