The best American poetry
is also a clever sequencing
of all the verbal flotsam
and jetsam of our time
so the future will hear
exactly how we spoke
on the street and in bed
the phrases and expressions
language itself discovered
buried in us and saved
for just these few decades
when it can offer no discernible
direction poetry becomes
an archivist of idioms
whose time has come and gone
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