Howie Good
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Police and
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Love During Wartime
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Time to crack open that bottle
the previous tenant bequeathed us.
We can drink to whatever you want –
lack of sleep, importunate prayers,
another day of freedom from the landlord’s
fretful knock – then tumble into bed,
our bones loosened, our minds in happy
disarray, despite, or perhaps because,
it’s now light, and there’s a kind of war
outside our window, and the invisible sniper
in the gaunt bell tower is always watching
with bloodshot eyes for a clean shot.

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