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Wisconsin poet John Lehman recast my overtaxed vacationeer’s Facebook post as a Lehman “justified poem.” I’m deeply honored. (With apologies to the Steve Miller Band.)

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  1. John Lehman

    …and what if you had stayed behind. More dead bodies:

    Finding Happiness in Wisconsin

    Put a 300 watt bulb in that reading lamp,
    pour warm gravy over your scrambled eggs,

    imagine doing laps while lolling in a bath.
    Or invite your neighbor over and when he

    trudges by, pretend you’re not there. Life
    is like ice fishing in the dark. Sometimes

    you snag a seven-pound bass, sometimes
    that fisherman who drowned last year.

    John

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