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Acid Bark Of Petroleum Too Waste
For Rocco Acid bark of petroleum too waste imagine never overhanging the city snake colossal hiss kisses armed icon retching sky too on feasting dawn i at the heart regret ever in this sour game the chaplain’s ten point star strewn too scenes too entertain too stretch too reflex too glacier too gamble too gone…
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Disambiguate the Precedent (Assassination Attempt No. 1)
god isan alligator whitedunce cap commonsupernatural they are kindof fragile wicked motheri said i don’t know youreveal your incantatory powervanishes soon of dawnalligator calledmaeve anything is yoursbig smile lookingat leavesgoing aroundyour big breath rattlingevery baby born afterjune 07confused about cost and courseare you wind wisened carried from childto child in red eyeswe haven’t sleptfor weeks…
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Dear Oblivion
dear oblivioni hear you shredding bonein the goldenplacesalivatingsomewhereunknowablea mangrillsmeata childscreams what i mean to sayis this, dear oblivion:i rememberthe littoral darknessof the rising afternoonthe light never having beenenough dear oblivioni hear youcrawling away
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The Inhale (13)
for mouths. remember the taste of the burning dollar bill, the mossy ember. the inhale. meant it differently than the other, but they were both beautiful men with spouts one poet said, and then as if in response: charnel house, said another. one search from time to time. in the dark off-ness, what does one…
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1870
thoughtless deference to free men swimming by who mostly don’t—though sometimes must— respect the point of exclamation! / part and not part [sirens wail] [she moans] bean can and bottle top; variable dimensions are we talking about the made-thing or the making-thing drifts into reverie bamoun duala ewondo gunpowder igbo kikongo lingala yoruba sango twi…
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‘When Adults Talk’ by Mary Ruefle
I am not even vaguely interested, though for a quarter I could be. I was not allowed to move but when my leg went deadI cheered it on in the first place. When they whisper they ought to wear a lead vest.Their lips look like personified oysters. When they shout it is usually addressedto the…
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Chase & Repoussé
Wikipedia Poem, No. 826 subtle white clover yields at dawn shifting cubes of light pliant suburban lawn chase and repoussé
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Ivy, After Forgetting, Again
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Trinity (Nuclear Test)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 507 but only therapists remain and projected to have no metaphors i am thinking the impossibly large brick school building the phone call and days ago holding no metaphors i am thinking about what i asked her in first grade the therapist holds the fragile invulnerable dictionary spasms outside the hand and…
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Therapy (Pulling Red Thread)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 483 dazzle in bayonne them i spot the battleship a brave thing in me but better in college baionnette bayonne diminutive bayon i am a human who sits unlike a trough purchased long at the academic front leaking a long narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of control…
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