Prayer Before Birth
I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.

I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure [...]

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I submitted this to the Prairie Home Companion web site, but so far they havent put it up.   It was a prose poem in a single paragraph — I thought it might be a little more readable online this way, and in the process I did a little minor editing. 
Older Than Names 
The first [...]

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Mike is unable to perform his poetry duties today, so I am stepping in with one of my all time favorite poems.  It is a sort silly and sorta sweet love poem by Langdon Smith.

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