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Beware of Things in Duplicate by Dana Gioia

posted at 3/30/2002 8:08 PM
ID# 22697
Beware of things in duplicate:
a set of knives, the cufflinks in a drawer,
the dice, the pair of Queens, the eyes
of someone sitting next to you.
Attend that empty minute in the evening
when looking at the clock, you see
its hands are fixed on the same hour
you noticed at your morning coffee.
These are moments to beware
when there is nothing so familiar
or so close that it cannot betray you:
a twin, an extra key, an echo,
your own reflection in the glass.


re: Beware of Things in Duplicate by Dana Gioia

posted at 3/31/2002 1:26 PM
ID# 22715
This is a reply to: 22697
I like this one :) thanks.

I swear I saw this on the "Poetry in Motion" series on the NYC subway...

re: Beware of Things in Duplicate by Dana Gioia

posted at 3/31/2002 2:00 PM
ID# 22716
This is a reply to: 22715
cha-ching!

[I bought some poetry in motion posters from the transit museum in Grand Central Station a little while ago and The Gift and Beware of Things in Duplicate were two of them]