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Gratitude

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to wear so many rings your fingertips refuse to meet
to pull up skin-tight jeans
to slip on a pink tube top without being asked
to find what’s in your pocket

what is in your pocket?

to be known for a particular hairdo
to smell the way you do
to be brilliant without being moved
to snooze

oh scent do you see?

to kill in order to live
to grow a theorist in a tube
to suck off a hungry ghost
to love basic vanilla body mist after all these years

what won’t work and why not?

to have that kind of mind
to have this kind of mouth
to charge into the universe’s great recording booth
and scream no no no that won’t work

 

Wikipedia Poem, No. 52

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Scene 1

stopper

 the 
    scene A 
beat 
“He tied her past me, first what I need” When 
  are your face When 
you’ve got an autopsy 
         to the 
      attorney Or 
        remains 
“Don’t 
          found there’s a business board?”
       
His old 
      man’s eyes landed back and listened to botch “But…
     “You’ll 
find the 
        checkered patter of time
     Someone else will die and 
          slit her.” 
         More smoke in my 
        eyes from across 
his overgrown 
   brow 
        business measures dash 
         by Fingers dully on 
  then… you what  I 
never killed back and slit her 
          remains Don’t secure 
         the attorney Call 
me and stopper 

         grandpa?

He 
      stared past me to botch “But…
“You’ll 
tell your 
face when.”

wikipedia poem, no. 50

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wikiE

   missing 
          for 

a 
snow day 

officials think they remained so  
    at the campus discovering mice
  
        The snake
discovered beside missing students 

the 
    campus 
      
trained the 
          snake   was dangerous and determined 

        the snake was locked

       The snake 
was locked.
         
        The snake 
discovered dead 

missing 
      the door 

weighted 
	lid

          missing 
    from its cage 

mice
 eyes out.

wikipedia poem, no. 21

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the die 
          like crazy. We’ve beekeepers full
        of colony cold

in almond groves
   said he was that way
  to 
      ban their impact once:

               since the first 
   survivors weakened

an apiculture pollinates many and with scientists 
last year’s die-off sent 
itself its carriers 
       higher the 
bee
on a steady 
          dose of February

    products hardly there’d from corn to sunflower 
fields of canola

a coalition of our products are applied in smaller doses 
could 
       kill bees 
     and biologic herbicides 
and vegetables

         that the biggest culprit is 
The 
      Agriculture Department 
in black in the groves, picking off kill bees despite 
    bee 
      mites 
they react with weedkillers
Experts say 
      many beekeepers 
have
30 years, and with his 
father and brother, represent
the biggest culprit i

“We were 
      so great in our 
         losses.
European colony collapse, disorder, 
roughly 
     tracked
so the proud
represent more 
than 
       it’s 
ever 
     been.”