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Walt Whitman's Occupation Is Poet

from Ballads Under New Regime [Reprise] by John Burgess & Jed Myers

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Riff on lines from Walt Whitman's poem "Chants Democratic 14:" Poets to come! / Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and what we are for, / But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, / You must justify me.

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WALT WHITMAN’S OCCUPATION IS POET

Closeness happens as a matter of density
Huddled atoms orbit, clash randomly
Electric, riotous and well-loved
Poets to come amass when shoved—

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from Ballads Under New Regime [Reprise], released October 5, 2017

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John Burgess Seattle, Washington

John Burgess writes poetry in public places. His first book was Punk Poems from Ravenna Press.

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