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“You could lighten
up a little,” he says,
shutting the rusted tailgate,
“maybe at least lean
down from your high horse
and look busy,” picking up
his work gloves and his spade.
“You’re not the only
hick on the clock
with an education,” he says, half-
laughing, half-wheezing,
and spits, his bottom lip bulging
with a load of Skoal,“even
if you do think pretty highly
of your poetry.”
Source: Poetry (February 2012).
Poems by Greg Glazner
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Social Commentaries, Class
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