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Hackensack
After Ron Padgett’s Amsterdam The sky has been paved over by no boats in the Hackensack. In the gutters of River Roadwatery asphalt crumblesbecause it is New Jersey and very unwell. Even the street light thinks filth, withthe sadness of her body her electric mind every minuteand Ken Zisa insidethe house watching his Yankeesinning after…
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The Cardinals
Wikipedia Poem, No. 619 cedar’s severe angels sing out boxy little songs sing a jumpsuited repair man services holy angles sing holy logic proofs with pencils rule a jumpsuited repair man servicing boxy proofs with pencils neg a jumpsuited repair man services a jumpsuited repair man servicing holy angles sing holy angles sing a jumpsuited…
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A Passing Storm
There was a woman Thirty feet ahead Sandals and rainbow Knee socks dreadlocks Tied into a loose Ponytail tank top The grave color Of a passing storm There was a woman
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Phil & Chuck [draft]
One truth hands black & dark and inkly severed from— and tiny squares of arithmetic density perhaps … His hunch—perspective—proves something some scream or prowl with semi-automatic plutonium a standard-issue chokehold six shots four through the arm two in the head too many too loud … Say it, man! Art can save you— tinted pulp…