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JUNE 1, 2004
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#97
"everything
happens to me?
for
mark ritsema
all my life I've paid
& paid, until my dues card
is punched up
on all 4 sides,
a child
of relative privilege who chose
to 'take the way
of the lowest? in most things?
race traitor & renegade,
beatnik,
dope fiend,
poet provocateur
living from hand to mouth
& euro to euro,
sleeping on the couches
& extra beds of my friends,
a man without a country
& a post office box in new orleans
for a permanent address,
a pre-pay vodafone
& a laptop computer,
one suitcase stuffed with clothing
& a bag full of manuscripts
& hand-burnt cds?
to keep my head straight
& my heart right
to keep up my travels
& carry on the struggle
into another new year,
taking my little verses
& great big world outlook
everywhere people will let me
"amsterdam
january 7, 2004/
rotterdam
january 15, 2004
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