Alan Dugan Night Poems
- 1. Internal Migration: On Being On Tour
As an American traveler I have
to remember not to get actionably mad
about the way things are around here.
Tomorrow Iâ??ll be a thousand miles away
... - 2. Fabrication Of Ancestors
For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.
The old wound in my ass
has opened up again, but I
... - 3. Prison Song
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water,
rearing to escape me. Where could it find another
animal as naked as the one it hates to cover?
Once it told me what was happening outside,
... - 4. On Being A Householder
I live inside of a machine
or machines. Every time one
goes off another starts. Why
donâ??t I go outside and sleep
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