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1.<\/p>\n
crawled up to park place<\/p>\n
and tore down<\/p>\n
a hung sign<\/p>\n
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somehow you earned her<\/p>\n
feral stare somehow she<\/p>\n
entered you<\/p>\n
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this locution and its flaw<\/p>\n
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am i indifferent<\/p>\n
to the claws<\/p>\n
of these skyscrapers<\/p>\n
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all the wavelets<\/p>\n
of ripe cherries<\/p>\n
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i weep between your<\/p>\n
parted knees. don’t<\/p>\n
ever make up your mind<\/p>\n
about the poem beneath<\/p>\n
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this poem<\/p>\n
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2.<\/p>\n
that’s what you get for<\/p>\n
mangling a shopping cart;<\/p>\n
something as recent as<\/p>\n
splitting the fugue and asking for bacon;<\/p>\n
neonatal rites shaping up; less<\/p>\n
than the electrical apex meant<\/p>\n
for someone else; wings around his skull;<\/p>\n
that which segued into peroxide<\/p>\n
from camouflage; she beat him<\/p>\n
to it: inside the poem was work and play;<\/p>\n
she let the synthetic smells flow away; his<\/p>\n
ears were not what they used to be;<\/p>\n
the contagion of the broken glass shard;<\/p>\n
your salvo does stand; the gush of groove;<\/p>\n
mistakes are your tools; can’t fault<\/p>\n
the intention of your music; are you<\/p>\n
branching; why are you asking; maximal<\/p>\n
recounts of curtains and rooms; xerox<\/p>\n
after xerox; up to a quip exampled;<\/p>\n
bargain too nimble to deflect;<\/p>\n
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3.<\/p>\n
either rosette or a boycott.<\/p>\n
daughter will<\/p>\n
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do it. will teach it to speak non-stop.<\/p>\n
you don’t have<\/p>\n
to will disenchantment it’s there in<\/p>\n
the laughter that sizes you up. that<\/p>\n
vibrates between<\/p>\n
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your ridges between difference<\/p>\n
and inference. you won’t earn points for<\/p>\n
fortitude but you won’t look away.<\/p>\n
too much skin is never enough.<\/p>\n
son will do<\/p>\n
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it. will presume a curve that allows print<\/p>\n
to fall away. will meet excess full on. the<\/p>\n
same whiskey the same line that crosses<\/p>\n
the infinite condom.<\/p>\n
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bits of the juror’s backnotes. cordials from<\/p>\n
Pompeii. this yellow house that surges through<\/p>\n
your blood. clumsy and happy daubers<\/p>\n
attribute it to trunk shows at boutiques.<\/p>\n
starting from cars to the low volume on a revolving stage.<\/p>\n
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4.<\/p>\n
midthigh motet; although needing you<\/p>\n
is as clear as the sound of your name;<\/p>\n
keep me in perfect unease; in other lines,<\/p>\n
more hands; will you pick me up before<\/p>\n
6 O’clock if i call it planetary ache;<\/p>\n
osculatory debauch and sweetbread and what<\/p>\n
the day is made of; when am i going to make<\/p>\n
you sticky; atingle to the ankle; how soon<\/p>\n
can your loins frame the questions; testimonies<\/p>\n
reconstructing us; you see mignonettes, you<\/p>\n
see pirate flags; lodgers waiting for ledgers;<\/p>\n
i began to say; pertaining to longing rather<\/p>\n
than immediate kiss; rainbow pressed to the brow;<\/p>\n
taken in by gull catchers; loose change we carry.<\/p>\n
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5.<\/p>\n
before saying blueberry blossom\/<\/p>\n
in raw\/<\/p>\n
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a broken window testifies\/<\/p>\n
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before saying sleep in me\/<\/p>\n
skirt full of salt lick\/<\/p>\n
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a romance seems extravagant<\/p>\n
but did i go down on you<\/p>\n
between sink and stove\/<\/p>\n
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before saying from benediction<\/p>\n
to benediction\/<\/p>\n
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or rather<\/p>\n
not entirely for the sake<\/p>\n
of catharsis\/<\/p>\n
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from headlights to the smoke<\/p>\n
of understanding\/<\/p>\n
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before saying new<\/p>\n
life minus thrift\/<\/p>\n
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rumored greetings from three gin tonics\/<\/p>\n
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a case of fertile misreading\/<\/p>\n
court the chasm\/<\/p>\n
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in your search<\/p>\n
remember me before<\/p>\n
saying that’s not all\/<\/p>\n
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designer on call\/<\/p>\n
all the way through to a podcast\/<\/p>\n
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a bias towards innumeracy<\/p>\n
after the party\/<\/p>\n
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before saying i reckon<\/p>\n
it’s one of those clodhoppers\/<\/p>\n
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left breast \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 posterior \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sacrosanct\/<\/p>\n
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6.<\/p>\n
light a poem and smoke it.<\/p>\n
virtue is the last of my worries.<\/p>\n
the lovely stains of evening<\/p>\n
beyond the scabbard.<\/p>\n
give her wheels a mobile salutation.<\/p>\n
i am euphoric among impure lines.<\/p>\n
breath, nighttrail, matrix.<\/p>\n
your lap ajar, will you do it with<\/p>\n
me, where no spirit remains still.<\/p>\n
discomfiture is my music. will you<\/p>\n
do it with me,when partition sets<\/p>\n
in,if not for these lips if not<\/p>\n
for free will, the cadmiums won’t<\/p>\n
leave, did you see her climbing<\/p>\n
the chimney, leave the radiator alone, go<\/p>\n
answer the door, i will put a bed<\/p>\n
in the study.bare feet the uses<\/p>\n
of light we flirt with,<\/p>\n
fifth ration, days swollen with parting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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