“After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won't pick themselves up, after all.Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.”
"The End and the Beginning"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
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