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The Argument of Innocence.

"The majority of American poets have acquiesced in the judgment of the predatory society. They do not exist as far as it is concerned. They make their living in a land of make-believe, as servants of a hoax for children. They are employees of the fog factories — the universities. They help make the fog." —Kenneth Rexroth, 1959

"When we are exiled from the orders and unities of culture..."

“Skunkworks”

There are no atoms
indivisible at last to be broken to.
If i was once
the site and source of such resplendent fire
or, oak, stood riven
lit from a forking lode, then more i shall be.
Atoms into atom-shards
and into shards of shards, there is no ending,
no last dust
but may be made to walk and weep again.

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The Ghosts of Elm Street.