Says gerty to alice "Let's make
A palace without malice."
Alice be took us is taken to whining.
Don't whine, no wine
Wineless days of whine & roses--
As well as noses leading
To screams of dreams,
Dreaming screams
Reams of dreaming screams
Steamy reams of screaming dreams,
More than it seems
Not as lean--steamier, meaner,
Not occuring once, but twice,
Twice as nice
A once word is the wind,
Winding its way wherever it whistles.
Twice will suffice, but the third time's
The balm: dream, dreaming, dreams.
Something to connect with truth:
Grr truth's tie-in.

Fred Moramaco, poet and Professor at San Diego State University, is the Editor of Poetry International, the author of numerous volumes of poetry, and co-author (together with Alan Shucard and William Sullivan) of Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950. Boston : Twayne, 1989.

Copyright Fred Moramarco 1998

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