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Who is that moonlit stranger staring at me
through the fog of a bathroom mirror
2
Wrinkles form a parenthesis around the eyes
dry wells of sadness at three a.m.
3
The forehead furrows in a scowl
a question mark puzzled since childhood
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Faint scrawl of chicken pox and measles
broken asthma nights breathing steam
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Hair thinning like his grandfather's
all those bald ancestral thoughts
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The nose a ram's horn a scroll
as long and bumpy as the centuries
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Greed of a Latvian horse thief
surprised by the lights
9
Deep red pouches and black bags
a life given to sleeplessness
10
Earnest grooves ironic blotches secret scars
memories medallions of middle age
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It would take a Cubist to paint
this dark face splitting in three directions
12
Identify these features with rapture and despair
one part hilarity two parts grief