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title: Worse looking over
genre: verse
id: worse-looking-over
toc: "Worse looking over"
project:
title: Stark Raving
class: stark
order: 4
next:
- title: The Sixteenth Chapel
link: sixteenth-chapel
- title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
link: poetry-time
prev:
- title: Love as God
link: love-as-god
- title: The moon is drowning
link: moon-drowning
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| [The radio is screaming the man][]
| on the radio will not be quiet he is
| pushed far into the background
| while some NPR talkers murmur over
| his screaming he lost something
| very important. He says it over
| and over but they do not listen
| they think of their children at home
| lying [in bed][] dreaming sweet
| childhood one of them is staying over
| at a friend's house they are staying
| up late they never want it to be over
| not like the man. His life on the radio
| will be the only one he ever has
| his life it is wasted he's being spoken over
| such pain is in his voice. I wish you
| could hear it. [It's something never over][].
| Suffering everywhere always and over it
| the same serene murmur of the comfortable
| distracted or worse looking over
| the [shoulder][] and quietly looking away.
[The radio is screaming the man]: moon-drowning.html
[in bed]: in-bed.html
[It's something never over]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
[shoulder]: last-passenger.html
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