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FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, 108 POEMS

PEMA YUMTSO

Gayle Beth
She is not certain
Seagulls
Moth
Honeymooners
Ring of her dead lover
Bees
Wasp
Wise owl
Clark Kent
Yeshiva
Black and white
Flamingos asleep on one leg
Giraffes are not Jews
Zebra likes bucking people
Glory be to Gayle
She's such a nice girl
Only if ...
She's such a nice girl
Only if ...
Only if ...
If ...
If ...
She is truly what she claims
She is Mona Lisa
She isn't Mona Lisa
Is she?
Or isn't she?
If she sleeps on one leg like flamingo
She is
But then she's not giraffe
Zebra
Is she a lioness
A tigress?
Maybe she is
She seems to be palm tree
She is white raven
She is musician
Dancing on the strings of piano
She's a little gypsy girl
She's cute
She's powerful
She's the lily of the hidden valley
She's not secular
She's sacred
She's holy
She's immaculate
She's complainatory
She is her
She is blue
She's white
She's turquoise lake
She is what she is
She's angry woman
She deserves what she is
Oh! she
Oh! she
She is Oh! she
Oh! she
Truth of the matter is
Just between us
She is tiger lily.

1 August 1974

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