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Nothing is Wasted

from Why I Write by Bob Gaulke

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for the writer 
nothing is wasted:

sorrow overheard 
in conversations

mothers cursing kids 
for their impatience

itinerant workers
scars on their hands

whiff of weed on a jacket
stink of honey peanuts

lovers kissing 
like a screeching brake

the train whitening
after eighty-sixth

advertisements scraped off a wall
flowers blooming in the dark

students singing
on their way home

dealers hustling
in the park

detail men
and their cars

religion of
streetwalkers

I just wanna make art with you
share the beauty of the world

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from Why I Write, released September 1, 2021

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Rootless cosmopolitan. I sometimes produce others.

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