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Your landscape sickens with a dry disease	A
Even in May Virginia and your sweet pines	B
Like Frenchmen runted in a hundred wars	C
Are of a child s height in these battlefields	D
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For Wilson sowed his teeth where generals prayed	E
High sounding Lafayette and sick eyed Lee	F
The loud Elizabethan crashed your swamps	G
Like elephants and the subtle Indian fell	H
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Is it for love you ancient minded towns	I
That on the tidy grass of your great graves	J
And on your roads and riverways serene	K
Between the corn with green flags in a row	L
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Wheat amorous as hair and hills like breasts	M
Each generation ignorant of the last	N
Mumbling in sheds embarrassed to salute	O
Comes back to choke on etiquette of hate	P
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You manufacture history like jute	O
Labor is cheap Virginia for high deeds	Q
But in your British dream of reputation	R
The black man is your conscience and your cost	S
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Here on the plains perfect for civil war	T
The clapboard city like a weak mirage	U
Of order rises from the sand to house	V
These thousands and the paranoid Monroe	L
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The sunrise gun rasps in the throat of heaven	R
The lungs of dawn are heavy and corrupt	W
We hawk and spit our flag walks through the air	X
Breathing hysteria thickly in each face	Y
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Through the long school of day absent in heart	Z
Distant in every thought but self we tread	A2
Wheeling in blocks like large expensive toys	B2
That never understand except through fun	R
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To steal aside as aimlessly as curs	B2
Is our desire to stare at corporals	B2
As sceptically as boys not to believe	C2
The misty eyed letter and the cheap snapshot	D2
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To cross the unnatural frontier of your name	E2
Is our free dream Virginia and beyond	F2
White and unpatriotic in our beds	B2
To rise from sleep like driftwood out of surf	G2
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But stricter than parole is this same wall	H2
And these green clothes a secret on the fields	B2
In towns betray us to the arresting touch	I2
Of lady wardens good and evil wives	B2
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And far and fabulous is the word Outside	J2
Like Europe when the midnight liners sailed	K2
Leaving a wake of ermine on the tide	J2
Where rubies drowned and eyes were softly drunk	L2
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Still we abhor your news and every voice	B2
Except the Personal Enemy s and songs	B2
That pumped by the great central heart of love	M2
On tides of energy at evening come	N2
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Instinctively to break your compact law	O2
Box within box Virginia and throw down	P2
The dangerous bright habits of pure form	Q2
We struggle hideously and cry for fear	R2
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And like a very tired whore who stands	B2
Wrapped in the sensual crimson of her art	Z
High in the tired doorway of a street	S2
And beckons half concealed the passerby	F
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The sun Virginia on your Western stairs	B2
Pauses and smiles away between the trees	B2
Motioning the soldier overhill to town	P2
To his determined hungry burst of joy	T2

Karl Shapiro

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