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MAXIM
by Aleksey Dayen
Gimme a buck, he said
And I looked into his eyes
and recognized
a poet with whom I performed
a decade ago in an East Village café
His clothes decayed
and his face and his jacket
looked at me with their holes
And I gave him two
and introduced him to my friends
And he said: Maxim
And I felt ashamed
for not remembering his name
From: Absinthe then Love by Aleksey Dayen (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2006)
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