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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Meinself

Robert J. Roe

From “A Sailor’s Note-book”

SOMETIMES I say to meinself,

“I am Michaelis Kerek.”

But it don’t sound true.

You believe me when I say it—

Whatfor you got to believe it, Bob.

But there is many millions men

What never see me.

What is Michaelis Kerek for them?