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Only teaching on Tuesdays book worming	A
in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning	A
I hog a whole house on Boston's	B
hardly passionate Marlborough Street	C
where even the man	D
scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans	E
has two children a beach wagon a helpmate	C
and is a young Republican	F
I have a nine months' daughter	G
young enough to be my granddaughter	G
Like the sun she rises in her flame flamingo infants' wear	H
	-
These are the tranquilized Fifties	I
and I am forty Ought I to regret my seedtime	J
I was a fire breathing Catholic C O	K
and made my manic statement	C
telling off the state and president and then	L
sat waiting sentence in the bull pen	L
beside a negro boy with curlicues	I
of marijuana in his hair	H
	-
Given a year	M
I walked on the roof of the West Street Jail a short	C
enclosure like my school soccer court	C
and saw the Hudson River once a day	C
through sooty clothesline entanglements	I
and bleaching khaki tenements	I
Strolling I yammered metaphysics with Abramowitz	I
a jaundice yellow it's really tan	D
and fly weight pacifist	C
so vegetarian	F
he wore rope shoes and preferred fallen fruit	C
He tried to convert Bioff and Brown	N
the Hollywood pimps to his diet	C
Hairy muscular suburban	F
wearing chocolate double breasted suits	I
they blew their tops and beat him black and blue	O
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I was so out of things I'd never heard	C
of the Jehovah's Witnesses	I
Are you a C O I asked a fellow jailbird	C
No he answered I'm a J W	-
He taught me the hospital tuck	A
and pointed out the T shirted back	A
of Murder Incorporated's Czar Lepke	A
there piling towels on a rack	A
or dawdling off to his little segregated cell full	P
of things forbidden to the common man	D
a portable radio a dresser two toy American	F
flags tied together with a ribbon of Easter palm	J
Flabby bald lobotomized	C
he drifted in a sheepish calm	J
where no agonizing reappraisal	Q
jarred his concentration on the electric chair	H
hanging like an oasis in his air	H
of lost connections	I

Robert Lowell

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