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Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.

Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs,
dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

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Genius Annotation

A 1981 poem by future President of the United States Barack Obama, originally published in the journal Feast and featured in The New Yorker (alongside another Obama poem, “Pop”) in 2007.

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