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By late august we've becomeaccustomed to the noise of thelocusts singing their mating song of hope.The calls rise and fall in tandemwith the breeze that blows overour bodies aswe lie together in the hammock,the gnarly limbs of an ancient oaklike a cradle around the balcony…
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Each day, they trot the coiffed/
and painted cadavers across the stage.
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It's pretty clear
how much of the truth
Is the truth
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Lucy kept her dreams in pockets ...
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I am experience and information//
at a small but irredeemable remove.
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Under awnings of other loves
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and we’ll have dinner
with the head of the Swollen Artists Club
and I’ll keep my mouth tied shut
with my own tongue
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I was at the pub one day
when the Baronness Fiona von Footitch
brought in this little cage with a pet hamster in it
whom she fondly named Fyodor the Second
after her husband
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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Do things you normally wouldn’t even consider doing
Buy a book of poems, drink some soup
Check your empty spam folder
just in case someone didn’t forget you
Go home early and late in the same day
Get out of bed because you want to
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I’m deathly afraid of the pub crawls
of my ancestors, through Bohemia and Fitzrovia
because of the ghosts of alcohol already
etched inside my veins
and the headlong loss of oxygen
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All were part of the household of Court Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
who lost his nose in a duel as a student
and went through life thereafter wearing a gold prosthetic one instead
and who met and fell in love with a commoner who bore him eigh
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I wanted to get him working on my latest novel,
The Lesser Gatsby,
which is all about Jay's shy younger brother, Marv,
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