May 13, 2009 / Creative Writing
I watched Rebel Without a Cause on TV late one college night when I learned …
What you said is all I say.
All you said is what I learn.
Your will, your will.
I move myself out of the center.
About the Author
Nicholas Samaras
Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award with his first book of poetry. His next book, American Psalm, World Psalm, is forthcoming in 2014 from Ashland Poetry Press. Samaras’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Currently, he lives in West Nyack, New York.
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