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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUR NAME ON IT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just
Subject(s): Names; Rooms
First Line: Let this one clear square of thought be just
Subject(s): Names; Rooms
Let this one clear square of thought be just
like a room you could come to in. An attic room,
after you've swiveled over to the wrecked
corner of the champagne. After you
hand-rolled cigarettes and ass and sold
your best midnight speech to a slick jack
of clubs. For a stingy cut: a wet, bony
kiss. You have nothing left to say
and nothing to say it with. Mouths,
whole faces even, have been pilfered
in prettier ways. For everyone who ever
looked at you and thought that one thinks
its so damn easy, you don't have to look
back at them. Ha! It is easy. This room
has no mirror, no leap-leer to strain
or stylize the fuzz of your body through
the razor of your eye. This room is dark,
and high. If you spit out the window
you could kill a bug. There's the document.
There's always the window, your signature.
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