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Poetry #133
(published May 8, 2003)
Father
by Jonathan Hayes

The announcement
of freshly-smacked after shave

The contamination
of armpit sweat in a yellow Izod

And the mistake of being human

Eisenhower paragraphs of tight logic

The smell
of coffee in a deli cup

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