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innocent man
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NO EYELIDS
anomaly tears roll
out of the crevice
of my eyeball holes
thinking about stuff
that causes enough
a sad sobbing bluff
to trickle and pour
down down down
my bearded cheeks
i am innocent man
who tastes like salt
The taste of salt within your
The taste of salt within your spirit is a good aspect: in Saint Mark's Gospel, Jesus tells us to have salt within ourselves (9:49). I do not quote Scripture lightly, or simply to bandy it about. As soon as I read the poem's final two lines, I felt compelled---by that poem---to look up the reference. One of the aspects of a good poem, especially if it is spiritual, is that it sends up searching for references, allusions, and what Eliot called "hints and guesses." I applaud this poem, and its effects.
Starward