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GHAZALS: 17 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: O ATLANTA, ROSEATE DAWN, THE CLODHOPPERS, HILLBILLIES REDNECKS
Last Line: 150 LBS. I WEIGH 200 AND WAS NOT ALLOWED INTO HER BLUE FUCK ROOM.
Subject(s): DREAMS; HUNTING; SOUTHERN STATES; NIGHTMARES; HUNTERS; SOUTH (U.S.);

O Atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies, rednecks,
drunken dreams of murdering blacks; the gin mills still.

Our fried chicken and Key lime pie and rickets. To drain all
your swamps and touch a match, Seminoles forbidden drink.

Save the dogs everywhere. In France by actual count, Count
Blah Blah shot 885 pheasants in one day, his personal record.

There was a story of a lost child who remained lost & starved
to death hiding in a hollow log from both animals and searchers.

Cuba is off there beyond the Tortugas, forever invisible; Isle
of Pines where Crane wept, collecting tons of starfish and eels.

Her love was committed to horses and poets weighing less than
150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her Blue Fuck Room.



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