poetry critical

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Random Poem:

Bandit (for Isabelle)
1994

shifty eyes
 1
behind a black Zorro mask
 2
bumbling
 3
fat
 4
body
 5
 
 
my mother's voice in the telephone
 6
low
 7
frantic
 8
police
 9
police
 10
police
 11
 
 
the light blurred into view
 12
my sleeping arm thrown over my face
 13
 
 
my brother
 14
little kid snores
 15
beneath the blanket
 16
 
 
come on kids!
 17
put something on
 18
here
 19
here
 20
do you think
 21
we can fit out that window?
 22
 
 
man's hands
 23
pulling us out
 24
a smiling face
 25
suppressed laughter
 26
 
 
the police had come and gone
 27
he says
 28
i've called animal control
 29
 
 
what?
 30
 
 
the biggest problem i see here tonight
 31
is the thirty pound raccoon hanging from your verticals.
 32
 
 
to the front of the house
 33
with the door opened wide
 34
slowly
 35
the crook wobbled out
 36
 
 
a chuckle
 37
surprised he didn't break his leg
 38
falling down the chimney
 39
 
 
the fat furry fiend
 40
glanced at us
 41
his eyeshine apologetic
 42
 
 
a thing that digs in trash cans
 43
finally
 44
ashamed.
 45

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