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I’m on a crowded ship
and I’ve been served the wrong breakfast.
This small mound
of soggy dough
is not what I ordered.
“Why don’t you just say
what you mean?”
Why don’t I?
Rae Armantrout’s most recent collection of poems is Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015.
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