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John Sinclair

The hardest working poet in the industry

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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 09:36
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for sunny & celia sinclair


for fifteen years
i wrote my poems
in the streets,
on a thousand stages,
in the daily lives of my daughters.

i wrote my poems
but they were deeds,
not words, they took flesh
& blood from me, & the tears
of a thousand nights in prison.

i did my part, & gave
from the center of my heart, poetry
in motion, a record of action
cut into the grooves of my time
from 1967 to 82.

now i write in words again,
five years of welcome eloquence,
a thousand stanzas of investigative verse,
stark & functional as the music
which has so far informed these years.


harmonie park
detroit
february 7, 1988



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