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				For the camera 
she smiles 
otherwise not 
and 
only when she is 
standing beside him 
But for the camera? 
for the crowd 
for posterity 
yes 
For their children 
for the future? 
yes, again yes 
a thousand times 
until her face 
be 
					
				 
				
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				The Mojave Desert remembers Ron Paul
With tattered billboards
Scraped and clawed by vehement dust 
					
				 
				
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				You’ve got me standin’ on my knees,
A’searchin’ for a beggar’s alms,
From folks who’re deaf to all my pleas
And blind to open palms. 
					
				 
				
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				On an iceberg in the Atlanticyou hunched down nakedin the sunYou were waiting, as thewaves moved you,to reach AustraliaThen you would bound offyour 'berg, as its lastisland meltedAnd you would run freewith the 'roos acrossthe OutbackIt would be years before youarrived,… 
					
				 
				
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				Two Great PoetsTwo Wonderful WorldsOne Flesh & BoneI liked this... love the image....  thank you for writing me this  One Pixel ScrawlsIf I am to be nothing but pixel scrawls...then those scrawls will exceed that of far more than flesh and bone... … 
					
				 
				
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				The Beatles on TV 
their last show 
together 
as a group 
and we all 
knew it 
smoking dope 
sitting around in large 
groups 
in living rooms 
across the universe 
they sang Let It Be 
and The Long and Winding Road 
knowing 
a man 
					
				 
				
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				the farmhouse 
of your childhood 
lies
 
					
				 
				
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				Ze wants an eyebrow for his troubles. he floats it in a glass given him by a silken hand protruding elegant from a blackened, cooked body. the only appendage untouched. Ze saves the palm for last as it tastes the best and makes a fair cup holder.  
					
				 
				
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				Such innocence between anticipation and disappointment... 
					
				 
				
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				You can tell 
Noah hates 
his job 
and stares off 
into space 
not thinking of 
birds 
or land anymore 
or the stars 
just that wide 
wide water 
that won’t go 
away 
and why in the vast 
flooded 
damned 
world 
he was the one 
w 
					
				 
				
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				Natty looking 
in his 2-tone shoes 
and argyle socks 
blue blazer 
with 3 gold buttons 
on each cuff 
pale yellow 
hemp or burlap 
necktie, of course 
with a blue shirt 
(never white!!) 
long mopish hair 
hanging on his forehead 
and a  
					
				 
				
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				with hips and bottom as wide as the Mississippi
/
They carry it back home/
others to have/
can’t digest it/ 
					
				 
				
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				Now I see it! 
She broke up with him 
and he left a whole stack 
of the books she had 
given him 
out on the sidewalk 
where I found this signed edition 
of your novel 
because she had once given him 
a copy of your book 
signed by you 
for 
					
				 
				
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				Her hair’s the color of LA at night
On such occasions when the Santa Anas
Have left the hills bone-dry and burning bright 
					
				 
				
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				Bright sun beams rise from the east. 
					
				 
				
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