Selected Poems
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Underground
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Copyright © 1981 Barack Obama • All rights reserved.
from THE NEW YORK TIMES
(May 2008).
Originally published in the Occidental College literary journal, FEAST, Spring 1981.
from THE NEW YORK TIMES
(May 2008).Originally published in the Occidental College literary journal, FEAST, Spring 1981.
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