I.J. Benjamin Poems

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1.
For A Spectator

i remember the sixth grade
and my teacher, an old gypsy woman with thick, greasy hair,
she would shout at me with a raspy,
liquor scolded voice,
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2.
I Am Not A Poet

it would just be me
and him
and we would sit on the cold floor of the side walk
and he would draw shapes in the grass with a broken
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3.
Be Drunk

i tell you now,
i'll repeat these words,

be drunk,
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4.
Not All Loneliness

i left two scars below my feet
and i am reduced to
listening to the wet sand
as the waves lick its wounds
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5.
People Are Not Good To Each Other

Yesterday,
the most beautiful woman in the world
was going to kiss me, except, the second
before our lips touched, i fell apart
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6.
Kanalia .

I was with a girl named Kanalia
with good curves, she explained that it's Hawaiian
and that it means
beauty within a shining star
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7.
The Difference Is I Carry My Umbrella Everywhere

When it's late at night or thick in the afternoon,
or the traffic is the worst, or the toast machine is broken
and you are swimming through waves of sweaty crowds,
notice the squeak of the birds in the sky, the rattle of the pipes, the sound of everything so easily becoming
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8.
The Night Laughs And I Am Thinking Of You

If I could just sleep,
If I could just leave day where it belongs with
you, with your teeth and your skin
that is smooth and smells of honey
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9.
Sometimes Rain Rains Right On Time

my love,
i am still here, smelling you in the soil
and the little warmth left on your stone
is all but dead, i sometimes think
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10.
Ode To A Fly

I saw a
fly
zig
zag
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