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At best uncertain as an early Eliot
Though smiling only for cameras,
I still hold on to your memory
Like pictures pressed in old books.

The front page said you did
It for money, yet only you
Know the reason you left Kansas.
Yet not as real as rocking children

I take delight in unknowns
And of course labor liberates,
With its black boots and
Arbeit macht frei.

Clinton Van Inman claims to be one of the few remaining Beat Poets who still bang the drum slowly now for the Cause. Recent publications include Internet magazines: Poetry, BlackCatPoems, The Inclement, The Tower Journal, and the Beatnik, while recent magazines include Down in the Dirt, Hudson View, and Indiana University Spirits to name a few. Currently, he is trying to gather most of his poetry together to publish in a book I hope called, ÒOne Last Beat.Ó

Clinton was born in England in 1945, graduated from San Diego State University in 1977. He is a high school teacher in Tampa Bay, and lives in Sun City Center, Florida with his wife, Elba.

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