Contributor: Rich Ives
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don’t hug the angry lover
until she’s done biting herself
when the guests are like family
let them act as they wish but remind them
they don’t have to be themselves
had an accident and now
I’m afraid to do anything on purpose
you’re never prepared for your own axe
don’t give your extra dollar to the broken man
or to the rich man but to the man with only one
he knows what it’s worth
the worst exile is not across the sea
but inside you where the government has no pardon
one side of the dust is on the other side
do exactly what they want and you’ll be fine
but they will go looking for surprises
do you think that after she’s finished doing nothing
there might still be enough left for you
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Rich Ives is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander and the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. His book of days, Tunneling to the Moon, is currently being serialized with a work per day appearing for all of 2013 at http://silencedpress.com. Tunneling to the Moon and Light from a Small Brown Bird (poetry, Bitter Oleander Press) are both due out in paperback in 2014.
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