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Finally you gave simple names to all the simple flowers
And the tallest the most beautiful
The one that sprouts straight up out of the manure of misery
The one that stands up next to old rusty springs
Next to old damp dogs
Next to old gutted mattresses
Next to shacks where the undernourished live
This flower so alive
All yellow and brilliant
The one the learned call Helianthus
You called it sun