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By Elizabeth Willis, from a work in progress. New York Review Books published Willis’s sixth collection, Alive, in April. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.

Start with
an ordinary president

his sweater, his door

Can’t we just fail
different

driving a leaf

through un-
resistant corn

Punch, Judy

Without the comma
it’s a command

“Come hither”

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