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Michael Bazzett

Don't Leave a Good Time Looking for a Good Time

Don't Leave a Good Time Looking for a Good Time

A poem by Michael Bazzett published in The Sewanee Review.

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  • Blythe Sheldon
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    “A poem that has stuck with me for the sustained dry humor and how the story unfolds, from the incongruous ponytail and philosophizing to the zinger at the end. As a bonus, I get a whiff of classic country music with the whiskey and takes on "I ain't here for a long time, here for a good time" and "I've been playin' possum / I've been a-watchin' you."”

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