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Friday Poem: “Applause for Poverty”

Applause for Poverty

Applause for poverty
flaccid imp
of heteronomy

Mere preterition
which some
call fate

Reserve excoriation
for willful
abjuration

So fractive
is autonomy
to the ship of state

Tolerate the victim
but beware
the saint

ca. ‘94-‘95

Copyright 1995 by Maurice Leiter

Posted with permission

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