Scott Simpson · Poetry

45 b-side

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 323

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Source page 323

45 b-side

for Mark Baldridge, 12-4-2008

you are there on your

harm-

onium

windy city blowing your 45 hotter,

'stead of out

pulling out the stops

for an audience

of monitors

and mice,

you count the days

till this year's

auld lang syne...

times gone by

time's gone,

bye