From Kwame Dawes’ poem, “Ten Imperial Rules (Notes of a disgruntled servant)” in Wheels:
Treat words like the detritus
of thought, the debris
clogging streams in rainy
season; hoard words
in the brain: name
the ministry of words
The Office of Sanitation.
Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, Great Britain, 2011.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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