Suicide Note for Weldon Kees
by Andrew Demcak
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Poetry
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This is excerpted from Zero Summer (BlazeVOX [Books:], NY, 2008.
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Suicide Note for Weldon Kees
Suicide Note for Weldon Kees
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updated 11/01/08
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slim thicket
of abandoned chapbooks
my words will recollect
rake-gathered
measured for the heights of crowns
or hooks
eyes grown accustomed to city lights
my jaundiced flame
inexplicable
somehow
oxygen was enough for me
a gasp
an accent: I wasn’t local
on the Golden Gate Bridge
car left behind
feet stepping in air
my sun-seeking vines
-Andrew Demcak
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Christopher
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I usually don't love words like "somehow" in poems, but somehow it's just right in the line "somehow oxygen was enough for me." An...more
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Francis
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The poetry is proper. As modern should be. An epitaph for the missing poet.
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