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Yellow

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It's like kidney infection piss / this / yellow

Aristeia

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And no one died achieving aristeia/ in this battle. We have come/ at least some little distance.

The Olive Is More than Garnish for Martinis

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The Italians blame Argentina./ Why not? Argentina is a world/ away and harbored Nazis once.

some days are

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some days are minotaur shit on your tongue/ smokestacks dumping acid rain on your already thinning hair your eyelashes pinned in upside down, backward/you give wrong shaving directions to the mirror

The Grid

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From this fundamental simplicity,/ houses, cities, regions./ A nebula stretches across the grid.

Jonestown on a Global Scale

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Picture it-/ air not clogged with the shit// that makes Beijing the dark joke/ of the developed world.

Why Can’t God Send Us Some New Kind of Animal?

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I guess the ultimate, penultimate failure would be to write a love poem that turned on everybody but you.

You Were At Your Best with Strings Attached

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You were like a delicate lace that barely mentions the wrist. But you were also at your best with strings attached. Let me say this. If innocence is supposed to be so overwhelming as to do nothing on purpose, not carried away by sensatio

Crows and the Gunshot

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We'll Thelma-and-Louise it, I urged, Bonnie-and-Clyde it, she bettered, Sundance-and-Butch it, I proffered but she was already leaning in for a kiss.

The January Oak

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tiny banners, browned/ and wrinkled by time,

In Every House, a Shadow Beyond the Door

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People often see someone coming into their room—they’re not able to move or talk or scream or anything.

Across from Margaret Atwood's House

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Been running so long You've been running so long I bet you can't remember What you're running from

The Human Resource

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I am a human resource, batteries not included

My Expiration Date Approaches

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the doomed, but splendid, first year GT40.

Alignment

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The human/ is less dependable than these pinpricks// and the lunar cycle.