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THE CURDLE OF FOAM ALWAYS SUBMITS Worth more with fermentation & lit blue below the shuffling feet, the garden of useless particles creeps the party like a storm without lightning, clinging to the pant cuffs, begging to be taken towards the lawn, towards the blades of parsing. All words are church to the [...]
Removal of the gold wedding band That’s the first step Securing it in a shirt pocket — Button closed. Hold the shell high Then slam it down on a steel pick Peeling away the green halves Cracked along the seam. Then pick out a blond or brunette From the gathered crowd Huddling in pairs [...]
Just skinny girls and boys but they hold anyway green-streaked fingers to the sky, as if even now— the tear gas coming down, sad-eyed men owned by some other man shouting orders, wrecking precisely machined clubs against ordinary necks and knees, rifles on their backs intricate and [...]
The music gets pasted on skin.
Feel the harmonica roll off
like the squabble of two brats
tasting the last cold slice of pie.
You can expect the news to arrive by mail
on a day when you anticipate nothing more
than an overdue check in payment
for the resume you completed a good two years back.
There were tits on Lawrence Welk.
Not often, it’s true, but I think I remember
Hula dancers once and those layers of leis
Swaying gently, and once upon a time the Lennon
Sisters probably wore push up bras beneath the cashmere
It’s a rushing kind, a dancing
rhythmic kiss under his skin and an
and you in pinstripes
hat tipped neatly to one side
shoes filled with delta
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