i was afraid what would happen to me

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musical theatre, stretch pants

she swerves off the road and

waits to collect her breath. a maze in

her mind leads back to the

morning. when mist covered the

grass and her thoughts were like nuts

spread over chocolate: crushed and

salty, made for contrast. she remembers her

words, they

lead her to the center, where a dead man with

living eyes offers her a smoke. a dear jumps

across the road, as if she swerved pre-emptively for it.

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green then blue then white

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free college, intersections, zambia

evenings with energy, at the

teeth of a mountain lion. I saw the

real me when I was making spelling

errors and spilling my

pickle juice in our kitchen at the

end of the passionfruit lane. gingerbread men come

to knock on our door. they ask for candy,

we only have

dried fruit. the light in the

ocean. the sound of the

belina. the fingers of the

waves.

no pancakes on this side of the world

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cajun toast, gramaphone, keyholes, pain medication

the rain is fuzzy and

spider legs step so precisely

on the boardwalk next to the

sea. a million diamonds reflect

a billion patterns of when you proposed

to the gal that was waiting with

a cigarette between her furry fingers. you cut

your hair. we cut your hair. everyone cuts your hair.

sound designed to kill

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cholrea, diabete time, froggish ways, two fingers

Life shakes past you, in

jest and in

jigging. you wake to

piss. PIss in the hair of

sacred tequila. You

sing to

engineering. the third course

of the dinner is served in

the shells of egg. Egg is

money, egg is jewel. Why do we wait,

why do we sit sheltered by

the rain? Why don’t you

strike me with a hammer?

envy of a summertime

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lexus, raf, sixers

lemons in the morning, lemons

at night, sonorous cirtus

in the afternoon and then

lemons after that. there is a

spinning that venus does when

she sees trees grow on

the top of hills, on the top of mountains too.

She spins more uniquely, more

holistically. ‘halt, halt, you are a sculpture, you’ve

frozen me into stone as well’

water no get enemy

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chaldea, des frites, smarmy, to go

when the jeep gets rickety and

the leopards start jumping out

of the snow, there comes a man

that calls himself a god. he is not alone,

he brings with him, silver armies and

swords from far away lands. These are the dead, short days ago,

saw life and love, saw sunsets snow. we are caught in the middle,

but we have a hope not in this world.

the third valley

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elbasan, guelph, pink sauce, sonoma

sweating while

flying. the wigs

in the sun light are drifting

off of the cliffs towards

the sea. ‘they take my sisters, man, they

take them to the capital, but I

don’t know. maybe I can go

find them again. but you know, I don’t

know.’

jaguar spots for eyebrows

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His eyes evaporate into

the rising

springtime sun. he becomes a

lion and then he reverses into

the shape of Adam, the first man. ‘When

we touch the

game, we turn into

the wind. When

we run in winter, we turn into

spring.’

sweetly written candy content

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mulberry, saddam, teribithea, tisane

when the flower pedals

break apart at their half

written

verses. the veins are words, they’ve always

been words, you needn’t look close

to notice. you needn’t break your hearts

to rinse out

the blood or the plaque.

silence for lightening bugs

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you’re sick from the

smell of the onions and the voices

in the dining room.

you fight for your family, even

though I tell you not to. summer comes

but once a season. it loves not all who

join it’s cause, but

we give beef to it anyway.