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Baghdad Bar
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The Hudson Review
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July 1, 2008
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He used drink to blacken glory-always addicted,
this time he went on darkening dirt for glory,
the ramping of dirt on dirt might save the glory
when shadow came shifting down.
So he drank; he was sinking sorrow-even his beer-mat
with the sodden toucan oozed it, shapeless sorrow,
he kept gauging its liquid wingbeat, lifting sorrow,
while Duncan glazed on the schnapps.
That's how he caught reflection-it was like gazing,
the black window in the night bar all reflection,
his ...