Lew Welch

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[I burn up the deer in my body]

I burn up the deer in my body.
I burn up the tree in my stove.

I seldom let a carrot go to seed, and I 
grind up every kind of grain.

How can I be and never be an 
inconvenience to others, here,

where only the Vulture is absolutely pure

and in the Chicago River 
are carp?