B. B. Woodall Biography

You have to love them to sift their latrine,
The uric fragrance burning your nose and eyes
As you render their special place fresh and clean-
One of them watches, impatient, and sighs.
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Pill bugs wet with dew
as crawling gray domes mirror
green turf, salmon sun.
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When you are truly old,
No complaint will matter.
Rage about being sick or poor
Or misunderstood
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