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      5. clouds like lead tires
      6. draining midnight
      7. drunk on her smile, I
      8. exhale
      9. growing up too fast
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      16. think lucid
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      18. unfinished
      19. the veteran
      20. what happens today

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      		the veteran


      I saw a soldier today,
      on the corner of 70 and
      west olive, standing at attention
      with a blank face and a
      cardboard sign
      under the heavy sky.

      locked in place
      between the sky and sidewalk, he
      clutched the neck of an umbrella
      to his chest like a rifle,
      a halo of black fabric
      billowing over his head, panhandling
      the rain as cars splashed by
      unblinkingly.