Final Draft

twelve hundred freshman facing front

ancient buildings giant trees 

a lottery what could be more fair

from open window in the Union

just a bullhorn and on mittened hand

July 16th: you are number 284

newly released from parents’ grasp

their heavy hopes for us

full dress inspection

no more duck and cover

could this carnage have been silent

what about our daily din

hockey puck slams firedog 

purple haze before breakfast

too drunk to walk pissed out window

of the low number one went to Ottawa

fingerprints and bail are on thing

another shot himself in the foot

maybe had a friend do it

might have gone either way

and you number 284 from wine country

up by the Finger Lakes

thrift shop overcoat smoking an Old Gold

the cleft in your chin looked like

a good place to hide till this blew over

you’ve since been tenured

had two wives 

won’t get out of the jungle that way

hitched to Hatteras from Providence 

series fueled by jack and white crosses

midnight movie Silver Top Diner

just a bullhorn and one mittened hand 

governor’s eleventh-hour pardon

a lottery what could be more fair

of the low numbers one went to Ottawa

a good place to hide till this blew over

dear Cliff how did it look from the air

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