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a helicopter just passed | Poem

 
 

helicopter just passed


 a helicopter just passed over the house

 like a loud scar on the evening 

 not like the lightness 

 of ideas 

 though Sikorsky 

 thought so 

 I would like to 

 live as lightly as possible 

 perhaps forego the new jetport 

 and swap phosphorescent webs


- Ken Peters
 

to Ken        to Moongate
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