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Sunday Service

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How they all beat the small drum/ of the word within the world

Subsistence Culture

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Defy the impulse to grow beyond/ your means and the means of the/ place where you lie at night.

Blind Jack

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The blind can be a little bit Angry now and then Trying to be independent They don’t want or need your help Usually. They’re a little like bees You have to learn to leave them alone But I remember one day when I Guided the fingers of Bli

Bookstore Reading, Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

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There’s someone in the audience who is immolating himself Cutting his own leg over and over with a pen knife And groaning: “Oh God, oh God” And all I can think from up at the podium is This guy must absolutely hate these poems I am reading

The Man With the Hairy Back

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It’s strange, what will become of me What my life will be like Since the animal in me Is beginning to show on my back Oh no, no, no Women will never put up with this I was afraid this would happen They’ll think I’m only half a man I’

Ambiguous

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We had a nice dinner, and I remember a brief kiss (There was that first taste)

The Hors d’oeurves Plate at the OH Townhouse, Eureka

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They got slices of greasy salami On top of round mini carrots, celery Pepperoncini, slices of sweet pickles They got cinder block walls A Tiki Bar with glasses hanging Upside down from the stemware over the bar They got wood paneling, cottag

Kintsukuroi

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The scared woman, she hides her flaws from the world.

Regret

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Give me your lies in a sky roiling clouds, and I'll fall for the shadows, believing they’ll rise.

Ways and Means

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the bodies of the poor become/ a simple logistical problem,/ disposable as any gnawed bones

the road of no light, the map of no road

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so out to the night, and turning out the stars, so nothing can last, and nothing is taken in

He Was So Beautiful

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secrets are beautiful
/ between four lips


3 Poems Of Broken Hands And Lonely Drones

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another lonely drone holding still

re·frac·tion

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bassackward/in the surreal/bathroom mirror

Gravity as Destiny

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Falling// is something that comes quite naturally/ to puffed up things. Like the soufflé