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***
Wait
I,
in
hand pen,
open
lies notebook
page,
rests it,
lined
and clean
and
white,
to
write
..
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***
Now
I'm bumfuzzled.
It's
7 a.m., I'm up, but
I'm
yet to feel hungry.
Guess
I'll sit here a bit
and
wait.
Did
you ever notice..
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***Why a poem madethat can be saidanother way?Dreamlike but no dream,instantaneously deeper and less deep,the occult Amun-Ra alight in Phoenixrising a..
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***
This
morning there is
a hideous wooden mask
on
my kitchen wall
that
I did not put there.Thisis
the s**t that happens
when
..
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modern haiku american style
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***
Birds
are not fliers; birds are
tree-sitters.
More accurately,
limb-sitters;
more accurately yet,
sitters
on small limbs i..
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***
When
you are three
and
an adult teaches
you
to sing, "Jesus
Loves
Me", you're
too
naive to ask why.
He's
a stranger, tho..
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***
I
know you’ve had a day like this.
I
mean, one of those really, really days
a
day when you’re
totally bumfuzzled..
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***
Here's
what I know, Doc.I
know grandfather was eithera
sharecropper or poorwhite
trash. I know whichever
it
was, my father escaped.Like..
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***
Noble,
Oklahoma isn't nobleat
all. Its claim to fame:being
rural enough for meth labs
to
grow in single wide rowsof
single ..
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