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They would not heed
my words at all
‘cause they could not read
the writing on the wall
They were way too short
They were way too tall
They took a tumble
They took a big fall
They met Humpty Dumpty
in the bathroom stall
They were way too sh
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hoping for a happy outcome/
like a kindly voice on the line
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I saw them kissing her foot
among the literary kampfires
They had her dress up
and her panties pulled down
but they were kissing
her foot anyway
Her foot!
Her glass fuckin’ foot!
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The pie must’ve done me in
The pie must’ve done me in
Not drinking Jack
Not drinking gin
The pie must’ve done me in
The pie must’ve done me in
Woke up in my truck
On my back in the muck
The pie must’ve done me in
I told the law
I g
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Can’t tell the difference between a torch and the woman’s
hair, as she reaches across the candlelit table, throwing
a drink in the man’s face.
Ice cubes and everything, the contents of the glass
casting a shadow across his forehead. His hair als
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most famously, a small/
writhing dog. A thousand casts were made/
before they stopped
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Next door to the Gap
in the Meat Market area of NYC
was the Baby Gap
Then, of course, the Income Gap.
Besides all the big fancy designer dress shops
like Stella McCartney, Dress Barn, and
all the rest.
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A mutiny of voices, enclosed. The sing-song of verse, the steady drone of prose.
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I am not
a Road Scholar,
ladies & gentlemen,
though I’ve been
On the Road
more than once.
Do not mistake me
for a bum.
I am not a hobo,
homeless or otherwise,
in this life
or any other,
I am not a bum,
I insist.
But I d
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I clearly see the squirrels of
negativity all around me,
ladies & gentlemen.
I sensed they were there
filling in the blank spaces
as I read down the page,
prior to arriving at
the meaning of everything.
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The consequences follow from here:
the shine of forbidden knowing
the apple soon offered to Adam
the twined Serpent’s hidden fangs
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His ear is swathed by a large white bandage
that runs down under the chin. Dressed in a heavy dark
green coat, buttoned at the neck.
Streaks of orange relieve the darkness of the green.
Purple and black cap on his head.
Calmly smoking a pipe.
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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Could even drift off to
New Orleans for a slow sip
of a hurricane
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The brain had elected itself Judas, sleazy loud with silver jangling In this grand guignol of new and quickly old concussion Limbs roasted themselves to occult temperatures Yet remained whitely chilled under air that strove to rub, scrape, signify …
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