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Dick Bentley: Newspaper

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

Open to me, says the world,
speaking in such clear-cut sentences
that I see beauty in its style.

I stand at the doorway,
Ridiculous in pajamas.
What others find in art, I find in news.
What others find in human
love, I find in news, so very trouble-free.

Sunrise, a smaze of dampness
over every growing thing,
beads of cold light
formed on the orange wrapper.
Is there a voice here?

Open to me, says the world,
so that I can finally say
tomorrow and the day after and even
the future. News, the hailer, the healer,
the tutor — even more than beauty.

Death cannot harm me,
more then the news stirs me,
my cherished life.

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Poetry, Poetry 77 Tagged With: Contributors 77, Dick Bentley, Poetry, Poetry 77

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