Table of contents; untitled -- if tears could ... ; untitled -- remember me ... ; untitled -- we took off ... ; A.F.; Be Quiet; Ant Trails; He Does; Hit and Run -- Basil --; Jane -- waiting for the light to change; Push Not Pull; Dance baby dance; Rushing to Heaven; It will not make the news; Nigel; I take a breath; One Moment Free; As trains go by; Shriek; alone by the door; The Watcher Lonely; I would like; My eyes open; years; Looking for food; This stare; Shadows; untitled -- Our last hug; 09-06-96 Eulogy for Chris; Goodbye; Leaving the Mix; late at night; Without your voice; Not Going Anywhere; Swish.
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Phlip Arima is one of Toronto's most popular performance poets. In Damaged, his second collection of poetry, Arima takes to the street to create his portraits of the lost, the dispossessed and the disenchanted. Edgy, yet deeply compassionate, Arima's poems capture the gritty urban reality of the homeless and the mad, in desperate contrast to the easy slogans of TV ads and store window displays. His question remains, ''What happened to make them this way?'' At the heart of this powerful collection is an extended poem, '09-06-96, Eulogy for Chris', a bittersweet memoir of a friend and lover, fil.