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Perpendicular, stretching out
the neck to right angle --
some swear, just before the
shuddering
axe of a conclusion came crashing
down
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The urge to set down grows starker
with every straying letter --
syllable spilled from the inkwell --
my senses stirred by a penultimate
th..
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Unseasonably seasonable, April stirs
memories of better-forgotten days,
long ago temptations left to perish
in the wake of settlements.
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If I am circumspect, it is because
I have been circumcised. Snipped,
slashed, and lacerated. Circumscribed
to fit the esthetic of a const..
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Let me be the first to say
your choice of cacti over roses
is an inspiration to all the run-down
lovers:
every tom dick and harry. Whoeve..
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"a thorough rewrite of an earlier work"
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Danish anyone? Maybe
a little mocha-d-shu to go
with those melancholy kippers --
some sour grapes to twine
around the fester
of bei..
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Getting out of bed in the morning, exercisingthe option on which foot slips firstinto the fuzzy fussiness of a day -- is a judgmentcall, recognition o..
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While we slept, time swept on tides
to nebulous shores, the senses
lulled by tranquil plash of moonbeams --
the ovule of a question inched ..
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Parsing pronouns, he she and it
combined their wages and bought themselves
a they. Now they toils day and night
while he and she sit aroun..
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