David Alpaugh Poems

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1.
Richard Cory (His Untold Story)

Turns out Richard Cory had pancreatic cancer;
Was told he had, at best, six months to live.
After the initial shock, he called his lawyer
To help draw up the will in which he’d give
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2.
Soul Food

I met the old man again last night
sitting by the side of the road.
I see more and more of him now
since my father died.
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3.
The Young

are begging theory
to spare them from experience
politics from history
poetics from the line.
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4.
Rollfast

What we did that summer evening
was turn our bicycles upside down
so the seats were on the ground
and the wheels in the air—
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5.
Deconstruction

“This was no playhouse but a house in earnest.”
—Robert Frost, “Directive”

At Mattel Toys in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1973,
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6.
My Daughter At The Age Of Reason

“Will you please get that cat out of your bed! ”
I shout, opening Janet’s door to say goodbye—
on my way down the hall, out to the garage,
onto the freeway towards work.
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7.
A California Ad Man Celebrates His Art

For those of you
who come here
out of spite
expecting to hear
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8.
Pivotal Question

Why must they turn and look back?  
Ruin everything at the last moment.
Lot’s wife... Eurydice’s lover...
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9.
What Happened At 5: 15

as we walked along the railroad track kicking stones
Paul Herschak showed me what the 5: 15
had done to his Indianhead penny:
no feathers... no warrior...
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10.
Statement

Today I am throwing old checks away
That lay in a shoebox five years, fearing audit.
They’re free—free, at last, to burn or decay.

Money still talks, but her ghouls simply say,
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