1. long shots What else was there to do With edgy triangles Tippling over squares everywhere, Cornered in an angular city. No spheres stood a cherry’s chance Against the cubes, rolling Away like little lost balls Tinkling over the ice, Diminishing in the distance Through an emptying glass Of long shots lost. 2. in a corner On a floor in a corner In an office crumpled up Lies a man with a memo In his hand, filled with lies, All the details dear to heart, Clutching vainly at its chest, On a floor in an office In a corner crumpled up. 3. freed- A signature, exhaling and rising, Standing straight, note folded, positioned, left, Purposeful walk out to the balcony, Up and over the railing without pause And smiling? a headfirst, chest out swan dive Gracefully through the air, down ten stories: Shout of joy, compelling, summarizing Forty-seven years in three seconds and A long last instant of supreme freed-
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