Disabled Music
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Ever since our clock that sangA different birdcall for each hourSlid from its nail and hit the floorIt hasn't been right in the head. The owlWhimpers at midnight, and at twoThe bluejay squeaks. The Baltimore orioleSings as though a heavy bootWere crushing in its head;The cardinal, like a rabbit putTo rack and screw. We'd throw it outExcept that some diversityIn telling time seems rightAnd we respectA song delivered in adversity. [End Page 194]
X. J. Kennedy has translated Guillaume Apollinaire's The Bestiary which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in April 2011. His In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems was a 2008 Notable Book of the American Library Association. City Kids (Tradewind Books) is a new collection of verse for children.
