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May 10, 2017
 

The Big Book of Therapy

 
Bob Hicok

If you think of humans as rare
as snowflakes, your world
is constantly melting.

 

If you think of humans as essential
to keeping dogs happy,
someone will always want
to buy you a beer.

 
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Copyright © 2017 Bob Hicok. Used with permission of the author.
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About This Poem

 

“I was vacuuming when I realized I don’t like vacuuming. So I stopped and wrote this poem. It’s a protest poem against vacuuming.”
—Bob Hicok
 

Bob Hicok’s latest book is Sex & Love & (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). He teaches at Virginia Tech.

 

Photo credit: Robert Turney 

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Sex & Love &

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