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Yet another money-man
with a finger in the till
at Flavor & Fragrance, my own
not standing still
no less a stance
than his, the only grounds
for his existence
now being to make such rounds
and roundelays as mine, to touch
what I’ve come to see
as the raw nerve
in each of us, each
doomed to think himself ever so
slightly behind some curve.
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark University Professor at Princeton. His fourteenth collection of poems, Howdie-Skelp, will be published in November. (April 2021)
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