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Seven Little Poems About Making Laws

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Maryann Corbett

  1. Prayer by the chaplain:
    cloudy pleas, made to a god
    we keep nebulous.
  2. Farmers’ Lobby Week:
    seed-hatted, they plow the halls
    sowing their concord.
  3. Sulfite pages in
    the old casebooks
    flake to crumbs.
    So much for the past.
  4. (Oh dear. There are now
    seven hundred sixty words
    in this subitem.)
  5. Where white silk brocade
    covers the tall, formal walls,
    we cut food support.
  6. Capitol Cafe:
    German proverbs, whitewashed since
    1917,
  7. are restored to view
    with bright applause. Old hatreds
    have new objects now.
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