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These Days

PictureDixie's Tavern (7th Street and light rail)
by Charles Olson

whatever you have to say, leave
the roots on, let them
dangle

And the dirt

                   Just to make clear
                   where they come from



from The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems (University of California Press, November 30, 1997)

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