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WINNERS OF THE JOE LIEBERMAN POETRY CHALLENGE
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HAIKU DIVISION
(Cleopatra M., Louisiana)

Gossamer feelings
Nasal voice like droning bees
Forward Joementum

BEAT DIVISION
(excerpt)
(Peter C., Ohio)

I saw the melted road to the future and the approaching tongue of the redwhiteblue leader,
who kissed my cheek before the crowd, who dripped approval on me in the marble Capitol,
who studied coke and booze in universities and flew American skies til war's end,
who read books to babies under burning towers asking men to bring it on,
who choked on war and preztels, joked on newspaper menwomen, smoked out of spider holes hairy-faced men in sand countries...

IMAGIST DIVISION
(Rober P., San Diego)

this is just to say

i have voted
for ned lamont
who was in
the primary

and who
you were probably
hoping
to defeat

Forgive me
he was so democratic
anti-war
and not you