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***BIO*** Damion Hamilton: I am twenty seven years old and live in Saint Louis Missouri. I have poems upcoming in the Chiron Review.

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The Mystery

by Damion Hamilton

I focus on the unknown
Because there is so little
Which is known,
It’s like when you
Turn on the cop shows
On television and
They are chasing the bad guys
It’s like the thing has
Been figured out

And the world is safe for working
And buying things

Well in the coffee houses
You can watch the young with
Cell phones,
As if everything is alright

I think too much about good luck,
Bad luck and chance

No one teaches us
These things

And no one knows what happens
To anyone for sure

It’s the unknown I think about,
When so little has been discovered

On many nights I think of the unknown

And the televisions and parades
I barely notice

Aug. 2006