From a Greyhound Bus
_______in Lansdale, Pennsylvania
______________I saw a guy I saw
_____________________dying in Korea.
Is that you,
_______Pete Merenda,
______________still moving down
_____________________the trail,
open gut baking
_______in the sunlight,
______________dream rock-hard
_____________________and deeper,
pulse beating
_______against the hot fragments
______________such idiots throw
_____________________at each other,
eyes washing
_______over you as though
______________you had not been
_____________________part of us?
I will tell
_______someone sometime
______________and he will not remember
_____________________disowning you.
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