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Alone Keneth Patchen did it best In Ohio Hemmingway did it worst in Idaho That should be enough Sorry, there is another story to tell Clear your hearts and tear your minds Find your worth and do not come down; it is the signigenifance way beyond, the terror they talk of now When you get old enough to see and not know Through beauty, a cell of any kind, some kind of land or even landmark, or street lost, with sign and cup, or taking it up again, with the better of the gun, or contagous, or and slipping away; crippled and dragging the streets you once leaped through Watching Christ belittled, as if even you, were a normal man "My sweetheart said goodby, or was it I" Our dreams are,not easy, our wisdom is frightening Our Blackness and our handeing, and our wonderful giving from thievery too takes our souls back to the beginning of books, which we write now, for our children, as it appear we have been made, forever gone