LovelyAuthor(s): John VernonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall, 1971), p. 5Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157776 .

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LOVELY

Lovely you look at the door

the door doesn't open or close by itself

it needs you or me

I thought of your eye lobes today or is it your earballs

this is not death this is life

amid the wallpaper matter in its different skins

leave everything alone

learn to live without shame

my heart is in the right place I know you d like to hit me

there's a man dropping in on our lives

by parachute he says you've got to shape up the butcher says you should treat me better

these are not idle threats

what a cool breeze the future would be

over the stumps of your arms

if you didn't want anything

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