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Matthew D'Abate
I'm a boston writer
living below the rich
slinging booze at the bar
and drinking at them afterwards
I realized that I'm always in a bar
either in front
or behind the fucker
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I Am A Hack
by Matthew D'Abate
I've read Dostoyevsky
and watched him nail humans
so well he must have had
Jesus whispering in his ears.

I saw Marquez
drinking clouds
and sewing dirt together
he asked me if I'd care for a drink
and raised a flower
up in his hand to my mouth

I've read Bukowski
and felt the touch
of that old family member
nobody wanted me to talk too.

I played with Salinger until
he showed me he
was really playing
with me.

I've read Neruda
and realized I knew
nothing about

the color
blue.
the final hats off
to Shakespeare
who when
read
fills me with such feeling that
words turn to tears
and sentences to
ghosts I wish
I'd known
but because of you
I'm reeking of that literary yearn
of
what writing was really meant for:
a song you can sink your teeth into.
June 2006
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