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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nby Robert Ronnow<\/p>\n
Peter has gotten a new job
\nas a bookstore clerk from one to ten
\ndown by the river
\nin a sunny little house.
\nI’ve come to visit and I’m thumbing through
\na book of poems
\nby Robinson Jeffers’ brother.
\nIncoherent but
\nmore interesting than this.<\/p>\n
Out of the river rises a bum of a blob
\ndripping with water and begging a yen.
\nWhile he shivers
\nI call him a louse
\nand say This isn’t Nippon, you!
\nSo off he roams
\nprobably back to his mother.
\nHe was a nut
\nbecause he wasn’t a fish.<\/p>\n
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Robert Ronnow’s most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005<\/em> (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird<\/em> (Broken Publications, 2012). Visit his web site at www.ronnowpoetry.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robert Ronnow’s most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t