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2005-11-15.1:54 a.m.


The Term
William Carlos Williams


A rumpled sheet
of brown paper
about the length

and apparent bulk
of a man was
rolling with the

wind slowly over
and over in
the street as

a car drove down
upon it and
crushed it to

the ground. Unlike
a man it rose
again rolling

with the wind over
and over to be as
it was before.



back /& forth /& frosting
names are often sad