June Stepansky Poems

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1.
Sweet Sixteen

Sixteen is a good age,
if you’re dating someone handsome
with a nice car.
Someone who takes you
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2.
On Being Lucky

I was always finding money
when I was young:
in telephone booths,
in gumball machines,
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3.
About Plumbing

I know more about plumbing
than I ever wanted to know.
I know the insidious sound
of dripping faucets, gurgling drains,
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4.
Women And Power

Power is not an end in itself.
Power, history warns us,
tends to corrupt.
If power can be the means
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5.
Exploring Happiness #8- Change

Everything will
in time
change.
You will change
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6.
Exploring Happiness- #59- Simulation Of Youth

Looking nice
is a simulation of youth.
A pleasant dinner
is a simulation of youth.
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7.
Exploring Happiness #43- Work Of Art

Living
is my palette,
my sonnet, my novel,
which I can change
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8.
Exploring Happiness #53- Pain

Pain is in embraces
which are destined
to become memories.
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9.
Exploring Happiness #36- Hemingway And Sylvia Plath

Hemingway failed.
Sylvia Plath failed.
They dug into a rich vein,
and came up empty.
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10.
Calla Lily

In one far corner of a corner
exuding messages you stand.
Prim, waxen white
bell-shaped, yellow-tongued,
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