--------Here I am
with one foot on a floating platform
----breaking myself into small defeats--
--I'm the ghost of a money-changer
----& halo of flies, half-moon of false teeth
-unable to bite bread. Please
go & tell no one you've seen me under the cypress,
---a fool-hearted footstool,
-----termites in my two
-------sad wooden
---------legs,
sawdust in my black leather shoes.
-Yusef Komunyakaa, 2004
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