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When I go to the protest to be arrested, I tear / pages from the library books. I fold each, tucking
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It could as well be late night infomercials/
saturating the screen//
with medieval looking exercise machines
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she drinks him in and savors him like a /
sip of the mocha capp sliding down her throat.
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Along with Bad Bunny
comes the reckless dancing
the ambulance chases
and the long, drawn-on faces
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5. When I feel the need to pray because I am too filled with joy or too afraid I pick a tree within view and pray to it.
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In praise of the colorful flock with crowns
of teased cotton candy rising high above
Modular walls, stalled operating systems
staling coffee and pale corner offices
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A latch key boy, free/
to do the stupidest things-- like jumping//
off the carport roof clutching a homemade/
flying machine that couldn’t fly
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a body lost in thought
stays hopelessly lost in thought
for as long as the latte lasts
and the coffee shop stays open
and the moms don’t gather with their baby carriages
and the bums don’t bum overly much
and the trust funders don’t lose too
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Chin beards, flannel shirts, Levis
no boots anymore, just loose sandals
their chicks with double triple multiple chins
falling asleep on their own palms
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Another siege/
with kamikaze fervor.
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Tonight is our last night to dream.
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The smart drivers know the signs/
and the back street ways around the wreck.
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Living dangerously,
I left my house with no glasses,
no umbrella.
I also forgot my straw hat,
no purple dye for my gray hair,
my map of the world to come,
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I’ll try to stop the soul from bleeding
if you want me to
I’ll try to un-anger the gods
so they can return to non-human subatomic bliss
like they were used to
before the return of myth
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