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I pick up thumb-tacks in the street
and put them in my pocket. Some I use
to stick up times on the corkboard, some I put
back in the desk. Once a tack stuck
straight through the ball of my foot as I ran straight
on it, the ball of the foot came down, the heel
lifted off pushing the ball of the foot down
full on the tack. Running off I stepped off
pulling off blind--leg, hip, spine,
neck and tongue like a crack of lightning. If you want
to keep time straight, you pick up tacks
and put them in your pocket.
—from "Thumbtacks, Glass, Pennies"
and put them in my pocket. Some I use
to stick up times on the corkboard, some I put
back in the desk. Once a tack stuck
straight through the ball of my foot as I ran straight
on it, the ball of the foot came down, the heel
lifted off pushing the ball of the foot down
full on the tack. Running off I stepped off
pulling off blind--leg, hip, spine,
neck and tongue like a crack of lightning. If you want
to keep time straight, you pick up tacks
and put them in your pocket.
—from "Thumbtacks, Glass, Pennies"
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