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The Poetry of Michael Langston


(22) THERE MORE REAL

You are gone...
and exist for me
as only memory.

I am here...
but back there too
still there with you,
and there more real
than here, I feel,
for there I live
while here I'm dead:
buried in loneliness;
to back there led.


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